Some aspects of Music Education at Kindergarten and Primary Schools at the end of Ninetheenth century: the case of Navarre

Abstract

This work forms a part of a wide study about music education in Navarrese schools during the second half of the nineteenth century. A brief preview was presented to the Seventh General Conference History of Navarre. The incorporation of music into the school curriculum implies a basic fact which allows for the interpretation of a small part of cultural development of Navarrese society in the nineteenth century. The main objective of this work is to determine the most significant attempts directed towards the implementation of music at schools in Navarra during the second half of the nineteenth century with a detailed study of the schools in which the discipline of music was implemented. The second part is focused on the study of music curriculum with special attention to the educational proposals and their implementation in the classroom. The historical-educational method, based on critical treatment of sources and the evaluation and interpretation of results with the formal-analytical study of some of the songs used, has shown the adequacy of moral and academic contents of music curriculum. The article ends with some conclusions on the threefold purpose of the introduction, a process that took place gradually during the final quarter of the nineteenth century, of music curriculum in schools.