Music is passing though each period in the history, it has changed its meaning and shape according to the time as it required.
This study wants to remind the importance of music in history and review the importance of music in human history by find...
Music is passing though each period in the history, it has changed its meaning and shape according to the time as it required.
This study wants to remind the importance of music in history and review the importance of music in human history by finding out which philosophy music had been influenced by and on philosophy music had influenced. And eventually, it plans to provide a base of an argument why music education should be emphasized on human race.
Among the city states during ancient Greece in roman era, physical education and music were proposed by Platon to maintain existence of the nation, and, especially, music was emphasized as the most important subject that can make human good or bad, and the history has repeatedly shown the ancient philosophers argument.
Two main actors of religious reformation period, Luther and Calvin, were well aware of the powerful influences of music education. But their opinions on the of music education were so different. Luther utilized music in the missionary gospel, chapel and missionary work. However, Calvin thought the power of music was too big, so it could have bad effects on the nature of human beings. Therefore, he minimized stimuli by minimizing musical skills and making it as simple as possible.
It was the 18th century when the study on dignity of human beings started full scale. As the French revolution and Industrial Revolution arose and enlightenment expanded in the 18th century, human beings were alienated and mechanized because of the loss of humanity. Therefore, psychological review on human beings came to have the purpose of the development of humanity. The ideologies in this period were the philanthropy of Rousseau, the educational ideologies of Pestalozzi, and the esthetic educational theories of Schiller.
In the 20th century, the importance of music education not for specific classes but for all classes was emphasized. Dalcroze, Orff and Kod?y emphasized that music should be educated widely so that most of the population could have access to it.
As seen above, music education varied in the perspective of the form as a tool according to its time and social flow but the value and nature of the music has remained always the same. It was that it gave a big educational influence on the soul, emotion as a kind of personality education.
If we consider it Necessity of music education, it would be the important purpose as well as value to be performed not for minority but for as many people as possible. In other words, music education does not exist to grow music experts but to be utilized as an important method for humanity and personality development, and we can develop a national and human world through it.