Kirsten Fink-Jensen:

Perspectives of depth in children's experience of music.

The issue of this chapter is the question of how it is possible to make musical experiences visible in school. the theory of philosophical anthropoly includes a shift from a paradigm of consciousness to a paradigm of action. From this point of view the concept of musical mood is deep experience founded on an open-minded approach to people and to one's surroundings.

In the empirical study 25 children, aged 8-10, listened to both classical and modern music, among others, a composition called "Prince of Peace" by Palle Mikkelborg. The children subsequently gave form to the experience in pictures, words and bodily movements. The meeting between the child and the music is viewed from the perspective of the individual child, and observations and analysis focus on how the music makes itself felt in the child's ideas and bodily reactions.

Results are discussions of the child's needs and fundamental existential makeup and characteristics of music. The individual mood did arise in school - but for the teacher it may be a matter of indirect imparting: to set the stage for something and then withdraw. In this connection the choice of music and forms of expressions would seem to be an important part of staging.