Music Background in the Classroom: Its Role in the Development of Social-emotional Competence in Preschool Children

Contemporary society has a direct influence on child development. Children's social-emotional development is an important component for future development in terms of social relations. Listening to music is becoming a ubiquitous partner in the child's life. This study presents a brief research in establishing and shaping a favourable context necessary for social-emotional development of preschool children through music background listening. The research was conducted for a period of four weeks with a middle group in a kindergarten from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The results were consistent with the contemporary research and have shown that certain musical environments are more effective than others.