The purpose of this thesis was to broaden the understanding of musical activities in early childhood by analyzing the musical activities of 3-years-old children, integrating music and Movement. Videotapping & author's journal were used as the rese...
The purpose of this thesis was to broaden the understanding of musical activities in early childhood by analyzing the musical activities of 3-years-old children, integrating music and Movement. Videotapping & author's journal were used as the research method. 15 Musical activities were applied to the subjects for 8 weeks. As a result, during the research, 3-years-old children exhibited a high level of interest on the experimented musical activities i.e., voluntarily exploring and repetitively trying the activities with expression of pleasure. Analysis on 3-year-old children's reaction, their understanding of the music and musical activities can be summarized as follows. First, 3-year-old children were able to construct various movements along with duple-time rythem. Beat times expressed by their bodies, however, were somewhat unstable while beat times with oral sounds and hands were stable. Second, they confused the pitches of tunes with speed and strength or softness of tunes, but they understood the flows of tunes relatively well, expressing with the correspondent high and low movements. Third, the children enjoyed repetitive performances of movements according to different types of music, and, while feeling caluses, they properly changed directions and movements. Fourth, they were able to distinguish different types of sounds and expressed them using their bodies, but they focused more on searching the sounds than expressing the sounds through movements. Fifth, they made different expressions adjusting the space width and power in accordance with the strength and softness of the music. They also controlled the speed of their movement according to the tempo of the music. In addition, they actively responded to various sound flows such as staccato and legato and made their expressions accordingly. From this study, it was found that these young children enjoyed the musical activities integrated with movements in a higher level than the ordinary teachers' expectation in a daily life of the practical teachilg settings.