National University of Music Bucharest

Abstract: Any short review of the penetration of European music into Japan and its enthusiastic appropriation calls for a different approach to the controversial question of acculturation The rapid growth in the pianois popularity in Japan, together with the implicit musical revolution, could also occasion a parallel with the similar process of acculturation which occurred in Eastern Europe (for instance the Romanian Principalities) Musical Westernization (including the institutional and educational reform) might, in contradicting the traditional local musical concepts, mirror a different perspective on intercultural communication and contemporary cultural education

Abstract: Aesthetic education is certainly an important premise in creating a mature personality. The concept of education reflects the commitment of the child in a continuous process of formation-development designed and built according to certain finalities and education can represent, simultaneously, a process and also a product. The organization of educational practice can be realized progressively, according to the synthesis of the elements that constitutes the meaning of educational principles, accompanied by a series of nuances of the system of values. The entire normative system can emphasize certain elements from the normative area that receive meanings from de system of spiritual values, claimed by a certain educational paradigm. The judgment and aesthetic value represent the potential explored of the process of interiorization of the subject's institutions. The purpose of this study is to promote a conception of knowledge, based on subjectivity that defines the concrete value of an aesthetic education. The justifying approach of educational values represents a necessity of the joy to accept and use groups of values such as: understanding, faith/doubt, criticism, evaluation etc.

Abstract: The purpose of the following presentation is to prove the fact that, if the students are given from an early age, an instrumental education, their psychic processes (such as attention, memory) are improved. Another benefit would be the improvement of their accomplishments at school.