ABSTRACT

This is intend to look for the nature of music by means of musical creation and appreciation, and to examine practical problems concerning music education on the basis of the nature of music. Since understanding and comprehending beauty of music means approaching to human nature, we have considered our good music experience to be the most proper and profitable way for our purpose of elevating human nature. Today`s music education in our country, however, seems to be for led into such an easy way of thinking. They are probably apt to regard music education as delibery of their knowledge or only as music technique training. Seeing that our schools think much of children`s being on radio, T.V. and musical contests when they appreciate the results of music education, we should examine many fundamental problems concerning our country`s music education and cope with them. Music appreciation is the driving force as well as the most important element of music education so as to develope our children`s musicality. With this in our mind, we ought to be able to grasp some more fundamental elements of music appreciation than listening, though the appreciation is listeing in a broad sense. It is one of our most serious problems in music education, which we are currently faced and must manage to solve, that we cannot cultivate-apart from the problems of listening-our children`s understanding through their sensitivity and therefore they always result in result in unsuccessful expression. In general, we have three important places where we can perform music education for our school children. These are homes, schools and public societies. Only in schools, however, we Koreans are now probably performing music education for them; and that we have too excessive emphasis on its ways and means with no regard to educational purposes and on its mere training at their emotion`s cost. Accordingly, they are now more rapidly falling into mere transmitters of their knowledge. But, our teachers should free themselves of such a wrong attitude. In conclusion, in order to elevate our music education to art education, we must educate music for school children not only in schools but also at homes and in public societies, as in many Western advanced countries.