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part of the symphonic poem Vltava. These samples can be found on YouTube and 
used in lessons for discussion and listening to the whole composition and for thinking 
about the reasons why they have been used for individual purposes.
In the research into the use of multimedia technologies, listening activity has been 
evaluated the second most popular activity in lessons of music education (after sin-
ging). There are several reasons why pupils like it. One of them is defi nitely the fact 
that they do not have to make any effort while listening. For these pupils who are not 
able to sing and do not like it, listening is the easiest activity done in music education 
when there is no teacher’s explanation. Pupils themselves listen to music every day, 
although they probably listen to different genres than they meet in music education. 
Pupils often have a chance to present their favourite interprets in the form of short 
reports so they have a chance to talk about music they listen to mostly.
Interestingly, it has been found that the time devoted to listening to both classical 
and popular music is 0-5 minutes in half of the respondents. Nevertheless, it is sur-
prising that the most frequent activities in lessons of music education is listening to 
music (45% of all activities) (C
RHA
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- P
RUDÍKOVÁ
2010).
This discrepancy has probably been caused by a misunderstanding of the question 
or it is possible that really so little time is devoted to listening to music because the 
most frequent activity is singing. In my opinion, the listening activities should be one 
of the pillars of music education because it is most convenient to demonstrate music 
in listening activities. It is also essential to listen to music in lessons in order to teach 

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Summary
This study is focused on the use of the website YouTube.com in school music edu-
cation at secondary schools. From the musical activities point of view, the text deals 
with the topic of listening to classical music, specifi cally focusing on the most sig-
nifi cant Czech composers and their famous musical works. It offers the options how 
to work with YouTube in school music education and to what extent teacher can use 
the visual element, which this website provides. The selection of proposed musical 
compositions was based on the use of textbooks in secondary schools.