Extracurricular Musical Creative Activity of Primary School Pupils Attending Mountain Schools in the Carpathian Region

Abstract

The essence of the declared idea of general music education for pupils based on
Ukrainian national culture lies in the relation to music art as to an integral part of the spiritual life
of people, appealing to folk music in the light of its connections with spiritual, material and
practical world of a human being. To implement such an idea, it is necessary to put ethnoregional
material widely into music educational practice at comprehensive secondary school. It is both an
important component of ethnic and cultural environment of the child and the background for
musical creative development. However, due to the music program for grades 1- 4 it is expected to
use only 10% of ethnoregional material at the lesson 4. Therefore, the problem of organizing
extracurricular musical creative activity for pupils based on ethnic culture of an appropriate region
in Ukraine, especially a Carpathian one, is a burning question.