The purpose of this study is to find out that a effect of the Kodaly music programs for elementary school students s musical creativity. To achieve the purpose, I have run parallel with both of the literature study and empirical study. In order to tes...
The purpose of this study is to find out that a effect of the Kodaly music programs for elementary school students s musical creativity. To achieve the purpose, I have run parallel with both of the literature study and empirical study. In order to test the questions, randomly sampled out from 2 elementary students music institution (city G, Korea) were 31 Children aged 7-8 in total, including 16 experimental group members and 15 control group members.
The instrument for testing the musical creativity was Wang(1985)'s MCSM(measures of creativity in sound and music) for children. For 2 days( July. 14th- 15th 2003), I pretested creativity for experimental group members and control group members respectively. The experiment was done for 4 weeks(Ju1y. 21st 2003-August. 16th 20031, 4 times a week. The experiment group was conducted with Zoltan Kodaly's music education program. After experiment, post examination was conducted for 2 days(August. 18th-19th 2003).
The collected data were processed by t-test and the results which the comparison analyzes to a research problem are as follows; First, The Kodaly music education programs have an improvement on a musical originality of the elementary school students(p<0.05). Second, the Kodaly music education programs have an improvement on a musical imagination of the elementary school students(p<0.05). Third, the Kodaly music education programs have an improvement on a musicalfluency of the elementary school students(p<0.05). To conclude, Kdaly Music Education Program is effective to elementary school students s musical creativity.