En kulturpsykologisk modell av musikaliskt lärande genom musicerande

Abstract

This article presents a cultural-psychological model of musical learning, based on results from several longitudinal case studies consisting of many-sided data collected in different contexts of making music. Here the discussion is limited to learning by playing instruments. Starting out from the learning triangle as presented in cultural history, cultural tools are seen as mediators establishing the connection between the learner and the learning object. The model describes musical learning as musicculturally framed by the learning musician’s idea of, and familiarity with, the music style/tradition in question. In this framing, established music-cultural conventions of structuring and expressing music are crucial tools when used in combination with each other and with other tools included in the cultural tool-box: instrument, performance (notation). Related to this, musical learning is characterized by mutual interaction between the learning musician and the music studied. The presentation of the model is followed by descriptions of musical learning in four contexts and a discussion on implications to teaching. - Keywords: musical learning, cultural-psychological perspective, conventions in music traditions, individual conditions, practising