The purpose of this study is to testify whether the continuous chorus activities, which help to improve sociality, cooperativity, and humanity, have an effect on the improvement of musicality. As a basic material which proves the effect of the chorus ...
The purpose of this study is to testify whether the continuous chorus activities, which help to improve sociality, cooperativity, and humanity, have an effect on the improvement of musicality. As a basic material which proves the effect of the chorus activities on the improvement of musicality, this study is to be the foundation that suggests the way to vitalize chorus education.
The study targeted the 76 choir members, the 4^(th), 5^(th), and 6^(th) graders in elementary school generally regarded as whose ability of harmony is improving, and 215 general students, who belonged to two elementary schools in Seoul, a city-owned choir, a private-owned choir, and a chorus belonging to an elementary school. Korea Music Aptitude Test by Kyung-sil Hyun was taken by both the chorus and general student group, and the analysis of the collected data was conducted with SPSS 12.0. T-statistics is used to compare the means of two groups.
The result of the analysis is as follows:
First, among all the students, the chorus group scored more highly in the rhythm, melody, and the total score than the general student group did. By the significant probability test, all of the tests were proved to be statistically significant with the score of rhythm .001, melody .000, and the total .000, which are respectively greater than .05.
Second, the musicality score of the male students was high in the rhythm and total score but not in the melody. By the significant probability test, two of the tests were proved to be statistically significant with the score of rhythm .045 and the total .021, which are greater than .05, respectively.
Third, the musicality score of the female students was high in the melody and total score but not in the rhythm. By the significant probability test, two of the tests were proved to be statistically significant with the score of melody .000 and the total .000, which are greater than .05, respectively.
As a conclusion, the study exhibits that continuous chorus activities have an effect on the improvement of musicality. The result of this study, however, doesn’t necessarily mean that the chorus activities improve the musicality because there can be the students with some already-attained musicality in the chorus. What is obvious is that chorus activities help to maintain and improve the musicality, nevertheless. The result of this study could be expected to be a positive basis for the future and the progress of chorus education.