There are four fields in music education. They are singing, instrument performance, music composition and appreciation of music. When we look around curriculum applied to music lessen in elementary education, these four fields are equally distributed....
There are four fields in music education. They are singing, instrument performance, music composition and appreciation of music. When we look around curriculum applied to music lessen in elementary education, these four fields are equally distributed. And a textbook is organized with these bearing in mind. But reality is not like that in actual music class. Because of economic problems, education were put into operation under a low-level educational engineering environment in Korea in 1950’s. But the condition was changed for the better in
1980’s. In past, music class was recognized as singing, but now, a balanced music direction is possible. Specially we have to allow more time for instrumental music field, in this case, we can point out recorder as the most ideal instrument for music education
The operation of music curriculum for a new age is the verγ maximization of instrumental music directions, and we can find the short cut by recorder direction among various methods for realizing this. We can't think music education without recorder, and we can pull up the music education to the highest stage and complete through recorder. But, to abtain such a result, the effect will be excellent if there is various music engineering environments as well as superior teacher. Physical environment can be made in short time, but superior teacher can' t be trained
in a day. At a training school for schoolmasters, they have to train reserve teachers as great instrumental music teachers by coaching a musical performence of recorder thoroughly. We can see that quantity of teaching matrials which is mentioned in music textbook of elementaty school now is far little than other fields. So recorder is easy to be maltreated as a simple instrument playing children' s songs and a1so middle school teachers think 1ike this, there is
even teachers who ask to be able to p1ay chromatic scale with recorder. This is the result caused by music textbook which have to show the mode1 directing recorder but mislead the direction of music textboook, this have to be surely corrected. That is to say that the instrumental music. Musica1 compositions used in directing recorder have to be selected among the famous pieces of music of celebrated musicians, students can experience musical accomplishmental fee1ing by
playing in person this great music with theirs instruments. And because recorder is essentially ensemble instrument, children can enhance musical refinement by playing great baroque music in ensemble with owning instruments.