Elementary School Pupils' Music Preferences for Classical Music / Glazbene sklonosti prema klasičnoj glazbi učenika osnovne škole

The paper explores music preferences of elementary school pupils for classical music and the influence of familiarity with music on their music preferences. As a part of the research, a questionnaire, and a sound questionnaire as its integral part, was administered to 238 pupils attending the second, the fifth and the eighth grade of elementary school.  The results confirm that younger pupils, compared to the older ones, show greater preferences for classical music. In addition, the influence of gender on preferences for classical music was also confirmed, while attendance of extracurricular music lessons was not proven to be  a significant predictor of the pupils’ preferences for classical music. It was also noted that familiarity with music is a significant factor influencing pupils’ music preferences. The results confirm that pupils show the lowest music preferences for the 20 th -century music, which has significant implications for music-pedagogical theory and practice. Key words: classical music; elementary school; music preferences --- U ovom radu istražuju se glazbene sklonosti ucenika osnovne skole prema klasicnoj glazbi i utjecaj poznavanja glazbe na njihove glazbene sklonosti. U sklopu istraživanja, upitnik i glazbeni upitnik su primijenjeni na 238 ucenika drugog, petog i osmog razreda osnovne skole. Rezultati su potvrdili da mlađi ucenici pokazuju vece sklonosti prema klasicnoj glazbi od starijih. Osim toga, utvrđen je i utjecaj spola na sklonosti prema klasicnoj glazbi, a pohađanje izvannastavnih glazbenih aktivnosti nije se pokazalo kao znacajan prediktor ucenickih sklonosti prema klasicnoj glazbi. Rezultati upucuju na to da ucenici pokazuju najmanje sklonosti prema glazbi 20. stoljeca, sto ima znacajne posljedice za glazbeno-pedagosku teoriju i praksu. Kljucne rijeci: glazbene sklonosti; klasicna glazba; osnovna skola