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Nowadays, the incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the teaching methods at music conservatories is limited and unequal. Regardless of other factors, one of the reasons may be the lack of teacher training in this area; however, there is still very little information on this subject. Therefore, this report offers an overview of the ICT training currently offered to future music pedagogues during their studies at postsecondary Conservatories. For this purpose, an extensive content analysis of the Music Pedagogy curricula and teaching guides of fourteen centers spread throughout the Spanish territory has been carried out. The results reveal that, in general, the technological contents are focused on the management of musical software but ICT training for education is quite deficient and there are great differences among the centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Educational society of today should reflect on the importance of musical folklore as an educative practice. This paper contents a reflection about folklore and different educative practices taking as examples some musical pieces from Jaen' Song Book. These kinds of practices are essential since they develop the quality of the learning process in general and the learning of music in particular. Nowadays, the school is the unifier mean for the reappraisal, communication and transmission of the folklore of our culture. Recovering our folklore is a task that depends on every member of the community and it can be possible through the updating of these musical pieces to the new social changes and its possible spreading through the media. Jaen' Song Book may constitute a mean for promoting its folklore among students of this province. The learning of this repertoire may also serve as an open door to the World to know the labor that is done in our schools. This paper tries to make teachers conscious that the use of folk materials may improve the learning of music as well as it may unfold a new way for future didactic, cultural and anthropological researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]