An Opportunity to Provoke Students’ Interest in “Serious” Music

Abstract

I present my pedagogical experience in optimizing the activity of perceiving the music in class by demonstrating variants of basic thematic material in a musical work (for the goals of the experiment there were developed variants of the main themes in Part I of Piano concerto d moll by W. A. Mozart), aiming at better understanding of its emotional content. The results of the experiment were confirmed through a test directed to check the recognition of the themes and the pupils’ interest in the musical piece.