Music arrangement in the classroom: Teaching factors in primary education

Abstract

This study aims to identify teaching factors that influence the implementation of music arrangements in the classroom of primary education, given that educators can face difficulties balancing musical and teaching aspects at the moment of elaborating and implementing music arrangements. This research holds a qualitative, nonexperimental, and cross-sectional design, utilising it the constant comparative method in an inductive order for collecting and analysing data. The purposive sample is integrated by two teachers specializing in music education who have a vast experience in primary schools. Results display that control of musical and pedagogical competencies are essential for solving teaching problems linked to the creation and implementation of music arrangements. In conclusion, three teaching factors have identified in milieus of primary education: teacher autonomy, lesson structure, and musical structure of the arrangement.