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MUSIC INFLUENCE ON CHILDREN’ IMAGINATION DEVELOPMENT AT THE KINDERGARTEN AGE
University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce (POLAND)
About this paper:
Appears in: ICERI2015 Proceedings
Publication year: 2015
Pages: 3267-3272
ISBN: 978-84-608-2657-6
ISSN: 2340-1095
Conference name: 8th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Dates: 18-20 November, 2015
Location: Seville, Spain
Abstract:
Music is one of areas in child upbringing process and multilateral learning, that has its beginning at kindergarten. Development of interest and musical abilities are goals of music upbringing, as well as exploitation it’s artistic and esthetical values to release emotional life and orientation of child’s activity. Furthermore, music is an important factor of general upbringing and education.

Disposition of sounds hearing: it’s length, high, consonance, is a peculiar disposition, created and inborn, and it’s activity has not connected in automatically way with general imagination activity.

Animation of general imagination through musical imagination is not spontaneous. This mechanism should be started by esthetical upbringing process. During doing by children different musical tasks, multiple activity is noticed. Always, as a base, musical imagination works, and we should strive to its intensification. Tasks as singing, play on instruments, when they haven’t made a technical difficulties, music plays, realisation of rhythmical exercises, listening of easy songs, plays, may be observed involuntary activation of musical imagination.

It is result of vivid interest and esthetical experience.
Imagination plays a great role in process of child’s development and cognition of the world. Through, it is possible to acquire the knowledge as well as music perception. During different types of music tasks, especially those, which contains creative elements, take place stimulation of imagination. Creativity expression activate not only imagination, but also thinking and intelligence.

The article introduces research on music influence on child’s imagination development in the kindergarten age.
Keywords:
Music, imagination, child, kindergarten age.