A NEW CONCEPT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING ABBA’S SONGS IN THE UNIVERSITY SOLFEGGIO CLASSROOM

Milena Petrović

doi:10.5937/newso22059025P

Milena Petrović University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Solfeggio and Music Pedagogy Department

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/newso22059025P

Keywords: popular music, popular music pedagogy, ABBA, informal learning practices, formal university solfeggio classes, multimodality, interdisciplinary approach

Abstract

A new interdisciplinary approach of teaching ABBA’s songs in university solfeggio classes involves: graphical representation of melodic contours and harmonic progressions; embodied tension and relaxation caused by the (un)expected harmonic patterns/progressions, form and rhythm; aural and visual music analysis of ostinato and drone, as the elemental characteristics of popular music, and Dorian mode, pentatonic and blue tones, as the main Orff-Schulwerk teaching strategies; emotions, experienced in relation to the gradual addition of voices and the chain of dominants; verbality, respecting the use of rhymes in verse translations, and the prosodic stress, musical meter and melodic contour alignment.

Author Biography

Milena Petrović, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Solfeggio and Music Pedagogy Department

Milena Petrović is the full professor at the Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade, where she graduated (1998) and took master (2002) and PhD (2010). The postdoctoral studies completed at the Institute of Education in London (2015). Her main fields of interest are music education, musical performance, psychology of music and musicology (music origin, musiclinguistics and zoomusicology). Her experiences she presents at the conferences in the country (Beograd, Kragujevac, Niš, Novi Sad) and abroad (Austria, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Italy, UK, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Srpska).