Singing throughout history and pedagogic practice

Abstract

This paper discusses the origin and development of the art of singing and its pedagogic benefits. Throughout the history of mankind, singing has always been important in human society, contributing to the spiritual and cultural development of people. In music pedagogy, singing is believed to be the content that unquestionably enables the musical and overall development of students. For that reason, it is necessary to permanently and in different ways motivate students to practice music in primary school. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to present the development of singing in a broader cultural and historical context, which in a certain way should allow students to become interested in singing and to get more acquainted with this type of musical expression. Getting more insight into the origin and development of singing requires establishing a correlation with other subjects (history, literature, arts, etc.), which will result in a more complete picture of this type of human expression, its importance throughout history, and contribute to developing students' motivation to participate in singing activity, as well as to get them to love and respect art in general. The theoretical analysis and synthesis methods were used when researching this issue.