This research analyzes music-related activities for three-, four- and five-year-old children in the ``Nuri curriculum teacher guidebooks``. To this end, the research analyzes musical concepts, musical attitude, types of musical behaviors and elements ...
This research analyzes music-related activities for three-, four- and five-year-old children in the ``Nuri curriculum teacher guidebooks``. To this end, the research analyzes musical concepts, musical attitude, types of musical behaviors and elements as they appear in the objectives and contents of curriculum`s music-related activities. In addition, musical forms in instructional media such as genre, range and type are analyzed. The target of this study is 213 music-related activities in Nuri curriculum guidebooks for each age group. The result are as follows. With regard to the objectives for the music-related activities, rhythm is presented the most in the musical concept. For the musical attitude, having an interest in music is cited the most, and singing songs appears most often in musical behavior. Similarly, when it comes to the contents of music-related activities, rhythm appear often in the musical concepts. Enjoying the process of creative expression is frequently applied for musical attitude and singing songs for musical behavior. When musical forms were analyzed, children`s songs account for the biggest part of the musical genres of Korean music. In addition, C8(C-C′) of the range is most frequent, and 8 and 16 measures appear most often in terms of type. Lastly, sound source are used most as the activity materials, and with regard to the elements related to Nuri curriculum, artistic expression achieved through music is the most frequent among the content category of artistic experiences.