Intellectual Development of Students Through Music Classes in the General Secondary School

Since certain intellectual efforts are needed for the "understanding" of musical language, this creates a beneficial opportunity for the mass musical education to have a serious impact on the intellectual development of students. For revealing the capabilities of positive influence of music classes in the general secondary school, I examine the questions and tasks for: a purposeful observation with an element of assessment, comparison, seeking a solution and a practical application of the obtained knowledge, restructuring information. These kinds of questions and tasks are set in a textbook for the sixth grade of the general secondary school.