A Study on the Current Middle School Music Textbooks
for the Third-year Students by the Comparative and Analytic Method
- focused on the songs for traditional vocal and instrumental music -
Choi, Sung-mee
Department of Music Education
Graduate Schoo...
A Study on the Current Middle School Music Textbooks
for the Third-year Students by the Comparative and Analytic Method
- focused on the songs for traditional vocal and instrumental music -
Choi, Sung-mee
Department of Music Education
Graduate School of Woosuk University
Korean classical education has experienced curricula several times until the present seventh course and now it takes approximately forty percent of the total. The amount means traditional music education is considered as an important part in music education with stressing the succession of the traditional culture. The current curriculum also concentrates not only on weight on the traditional music education ; also on the activity and appreciation for the students. This policy helps teach diverse contents of the traditional music to the learners within the concept with wider scheme.
This study examined the songs by publishers, learning scheme and presence of the educational purpose and activity as classifying songs for vocal or instrumental music among the traditional songs in the field of Korean classical songs in the textbooks for the middle school third-year students and found the following problems and presented a solution to them.
First, when this study reviewed the songs by publisher, it found the songs for instrumental music were not considered variously compared to the songs for vocal music. So to speak, the publishers such as Dongjin Music, Dosan, Sekwang, Jihaksa, and Chonjae Education should have thought diversity as compared with others.
Second, the songs for classical vocal music by publishers were found various published by Chonjae Education, but not Dosan and Taesung.
Third, when the study looked over the distribution map of traditional songs for vocal and instrumental music, the publishing companies usually stressed a certain factor too much among singing, appreciation, instrumental music, understanding and creation, so the researcher suggest that they consider the balance for each scheme.
Also, many studies pointed the absence of educational purpose, the lack of connection among schemes and secession from the music education focused on activities and these problems made less interest in the musical activities among the students. To make the learners active and efficient, more diverse educational strategies should be equipped and they may help the learners more aggressive to participate in the various musical activities.
Fourth, when the study screened the absence of learning purpose and learning activity, most publishers presented them for the songs for traditional vocal music, but they didn't do on the songs for traditional music. Thus publishers should clearly put the purpose and activity of learning to perform the proper music education.
The followings are the publishers omitting the learning aim and learning activity according to each classical song for vocal music: Kyohaksa and Sungandang didn't present both the learning aim and learning activity and Taesung didn't present the aim of learning, Dosan, Sekwang, Achimnara and Chonjae didn't show the learning activity.
The study reviewed the problems and improvements on the traditional songs for instrumental music as comparing the classical songs for vocal and instrumental music in nine different middle school textbooks for third-year students. To help the students learn more active and interesting, it is necessary to put the clear learning points and activities in the textbooks as much as the importance of traditional music education has been increased these days.