Educational Mission of Milan Đ. Milićević (1831–1908) in the Context of Serbian Music Education

Milena  Petrović; Marina Marković; Sara Savović

doi:10.5937/newso23062081P

Milena Petrović University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Solfeggio and Music Education
Marina Marković University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology
Sara Savović PdD student, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Solfeggio and Music Education

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23062081P

Keywords: Milan Đ. Milićević, church chants, folk songs, folk music pedagogy

Abstract

The oeuvre of the Serbian educator, writer, pedagogue, translator and ethnographer Milan Đ. Milićević completes the existing picture of music pedagogy in Serbia in the second half of the 19^th century. Although Milićević did not directly deal with music pedagogical issues, he was deeply convinced that learning music has a central role in the moral development of the individual and community if it is grounded in mastering church chants and folk songs in the teaching process. This would correspond to the concept of folk music pedagogy, which is in conformity with the general guidelines in Serbian music education in the 19^th century.

Author Biographies

Milena Petrović, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Solfeggio and Music Education

Milena Petrović, PhD musicologist and music educator, Full Professor at the Department of Solfeggio and Music Education, Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Since 2016, she has organized the Pedagogical Forum of Performing Arts as an annual international conference in Belgrade. She is the president of the Serbian Forum for Research in Music Education. She is the author of three books and more than 100 articles published in proceedings and journals in the country and abroad. She is the member of program committees of national and international scientific conferences and has participated at more than 50 conferences in the country and abroad. Her main fields of interest are music education, the psychology of music, the origin of music, music linguistics and zoomusicology.

Marina Marković, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology

Marina Marković, PhD musicologist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Her main research interests include Serbian and Russian Orthodox Church music, as well as interdisciplinary music studies. Marina Marković participated in Endangered Archives. Voiceless Choirs. Serbian Musical Collections from Zemun in the 19^th and Early 20^th Centuries, a research project conducted by the British Library (London), the Historical Archive of Belgrade, and the Faculty of Music at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is the author of the book Hymns of Srbljak in Monophonic Anthologies of Serbian Chant (2006, Belgrade: Signature). She publishes her research papers in journals and thematic collections of national and international importance, and participates in national and international scientific conferences.

Sara Savović, PdD student, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Solfeggio and Music Education

Sara Savović is a Junior Researcher and a third-year PhD student at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, specializing in Music Pedagogy. Her primary research interests lie in preschool music education, particularly focusing on children with autism spectrum disorders. She has authored and co-authored papers presented and published in the proceedings of the Pedagogical Forum of Performing Arts (2023, Belgrade), the International Forum of Music Pedagogy Students (2018, 2021, Croatia), and the International Forum of Music Pedagogues (2021, Croatia). As a member of the organizing team for the international conference and student forum of the European Association for Music in School - EAS, she has collaborated with numerous music pedagogues, researchers, and scientists across Europe in the field of music pedagogy (Belgrade, 2022; Lyon, 2023).