Lithuanian comprehensive schools have got original textbooks of Music. They represent a complex of different musical activities joined into units. Containing a wide range of teaching material on offer they provide a variety of choices that can be served in a menu determined by the teacher's taste. Purposeful and accurate selection is the necessary condition for effective teaching. The aim of the Graduation Dissertation of Master‘s Degree is to explore how much material of textbooks of Music on average can be taught and learnt throughout the school year having one lesson a week. Finding out how to make the picking of textbook’s material approachable to accomplish curriculum of Music is another goal of the investigation. For survey I have chosen the textbook of Music V-VII grades (last published 2004) by E.Balcytis. The educational experiment has been done in V.Macernis secondary school of Seda, district of Mazeikiai, also most teachers of Music and students of V-VII grades have been tested. The results show that working in a consistent, thoughtful way combined with a standart condition can give clearly indicated ‘desirable outcomes’ , namely, the fulfilment of the most important curriculum items. However, the teacher has to select carefully a musical compositions suitable to each theme and grade. It is the first dissertation in which such a research has been made.

Title: Liturgical Music as Curriculum in Primary School Author: Bc. Lenka Jelínková Supervisor: PhDr. Leona Saláková, Ph.D. Department: Department of Music Education, Charles University in Prague Abstract: This thesis speaks about the liturgical music taught in Czech primary schools. Firstly, the meaning of liturgical music is explained, we focus at the liturgy and its forms, then we present the survey results about teaching liturgical music, thirdly the textbooks are analyzed - we look for liturgical music as curriculum here, and in the end, there is our owns project for teaching the liturgical music. Project is about the Passion. The main goal of this work is to chart how is liturgical music in textbooks and at school approached and to give some ideas for working with liturgical music during music lessons in primary schools. Keywords: liturgy, liturgical music, music textbooks, liturgical music in primary school, spiritual music in primary school

The main benefit of my work is in mapping the content of the current accredited Czech music education textbooks for the first stage of primary school, in mapping the occurrence of foreign nations in their content, the representation of the countries and cultures and on the basis of the found, finding a suitable equivalent in Czech culture as one of appropriate ways to link educational content through linking the content of subjects taught. In the second part I deal with the categorization of songs according to their musical character, setting in the environment of the time and searching for the equivalent in Czech music. The thesis concludes with a personal recommendation for enriching musical categories within contemporary Czech music education textbooks for primary school pupils.