{"id":871,"date":"2022-06-15T16:56:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/?page_id=871"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:14:29","slug":"fundamental-music-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/fundamental-music-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamental Music Education \u2013 Music in the Social Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1653915704574{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243; el_class=&#8221;head-under&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;10\/12&#8243;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;sub-navi-top&#8221;]<a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/instrumental-pedagogy\/\">Instrumental Pedagogy<\/a> <a class=\"active\" href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/fundamental-music-education\/\">EMP \u2013 Music in the Social Field<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/singing-and-choral-conducting\/\">Singing Pedagogy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/music-teacher\/\">Music\u00a0Teacher<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243; el_class=&#8221;head-under&#8221;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;unterstrich&#8221;]\u00a0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;10\/12&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Fundamental Music Education \u2013 Music in the Social Field<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;5px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 26px; font-weight: 200;\">Elementary music is never music by itself, it is linked to movement, dance and language, a music oneself has to make \u2013 and in which one is involved not as a listener, but as a participant.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Carl Orff<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Are you a versatile all-round musician? Do you enjoy realizing your artistic ideas in creative projects and concerts? Do you like working with people and want to stimulate them to musical experiences through their own artistic work? Do you have the inkling that music is so deeply connected to people that making music can have an impact on personal development and the accompaniment of human development, that music can even heal?<\/p>\n<p>Then the training in \u201cFundamental Music Education\u201d (EMP) could be the very thing for you!<\/p>\n<p>The 4-year course \u201cEMP \u2013 Music in the Social Field\u201d prepares you for a diverse artistic and educational career. The aim is to discover and address the musician in every person in a creative process using instruments, the voice, and movement. EMP practice means becoming a music educator, \u201cear opener\u201d in a wide variety of social fields of activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Field<\/strong><br \/>\nThe professional field of musicians in the social field moves at the interface of art, pedagogy and curative education.<\/p>\n<p>Possible fields of activity for working with groups are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parent-child groups with music, early musical education, music offers in the retirement home, conducting singing groups, drum groups, choirs and instrumental ensembles, youth work in the social focus, use in emergency and trauma pedagogy in crisis areas<\/li>\n<li>Musical process support<\/li>\n<li>Instrumental or singing lessons in freelance work<\/li>\n<li>Own artistic activity: concert, performance, Musikvermittlung projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Subjects<\/strong><br \/>\nArtistic main subject (instrument, singing or rhythmics), methodology and didactics of the main subject, second main subject EMP, trauma and emergency pedagogy, sitting in on classes and teaching internships, EMP projects, choir, ensemble, practice-oriented piano playing, musical phenomenology, speech, voice training, acting after Chekhov, Eurythmy, improvisation, arranging and conducting the ensemble, musical composition, music theory, ear training, relative solmization, movement, dance, rhythm, percussion, body percussion, music history, form theory, anthroposophical anthropology, Musikvermittlung, music management<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not just another studies \u2013 it\u2019s all about your studies!<\/strong><br \/>\nIndividual setting of priorities in the study design<br \/>\nLearning in projects \u2013 \u201cInvolve me and I learn\u201d<br \/>\nStudy support by a mentor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elementary Music Education at MenschMusik Hamburg<\/strong><br \/>\nDevelopment of the human-forming powers of music in individual professional practice<br \/>\nMusical phenomenology as an interdisciplinary method<br \/>\nAnthroposophical anthropology as the basis of pedagogy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard Period of Study<\/strong><br \/>\n4 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission Requirements<\/strong><br \/>\nRequirements for the entrance exam:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Performance of two opposing works on the main instrument\/voice<br \/>\n\u2013 Basic knowledge of piano playing or another harmony instrument (guitar, accordion)<br \/>\n\u2013 Audition of a song of your choice (in case you have chosen an instrumental major)<br \/>\n\u2013 Oral test in music theory and ear training<br \/>\n\u2013 Motivational interview<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Training Structure (in German)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/EMP_Curriculum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curriculum\u00a0EMP \u2013 Musik im Sozialen<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/EMP_Strukturplan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strukturplan der Ausbildung<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Allgemeine_Pruefungsordnung.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allgemeine Pr\u00fcfungsordnung<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduation<\/strong><br \/>\nCertificate &#8220;Elementary Music Pedagogy&#8221;<br \/>\nThe certificate confirms the professional qualification as a freelance teacher for elementary music education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start of studies<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><br \/>\nCourse director: Barbara Hanssen, <a href=\"mailto:info@menschmusik.de\">info@menschmusik.de<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;100px&#8221;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;sub-navi&#8221;]<a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/teachers\/\">Teachers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/leitmotifs\/\">Leitmotifs<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/application\/\">Application<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/menschmusik.de\/en\/fees-and-funding\/\">Academic\u00a0Fees\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Funding<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;100px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1653915704574{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243; 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