The article discusses the place a word occupies in a child’s early education in terms of his or her musical activity. The author places the function of words at birth, and even at the stage preparing for listening in the prenatal period, then moves on to cooing, babbling, first sounds, words, sequences of words, microforms of a child’s verbal folklore – rhymes, riddles, proverbs and further to children’s songs. Discussing the place of words one cannot forget about speech as a means of expression in the form of creative onomatopoeic sounds of nature, animals, instruments, various phenomena as well as sound and voice effects that vary in terms of musical expression such as intonation, rhythm, timbre, dynamics, agogics and articulation. The next stage is the possibility of using the poems from the children’s literature and the lyrics of children’s songs. The importance of speech in terms of therapy and the importance of words in view of a child’s musical activity at the initial stage of his or her education have also been discussed.
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