ABSTRACT

The general objective for music education course provides that education of music aims at developments of musicality and creativity through personal musical experience. Accordingly this has naturally raised the necessity of study on teaching materials and methods for the sake of upbringing creativity through music in the field of education of music. The course of music education in our country is composed of four areas such as singing, instrumental music, creation, and appreciation for the sake of convenience in arranging curriculum. Of these four areas, the field of creation has brought out following necessity of study and problems. 1. The range and understanding of creation study in education of music at primary school should be clearly presented. 2. We should seize the relationship between development of creativity for pupils in lower grades and creation study in higher grades of primary schools in terms of content of creation study. 3. We also should firmly establish the content, limit, and methods of guidance on composition in music education of primary schools. Following are the results produced from analysis of music education curriculum and new text books, experiment and evaluation over children, and analysis of answers obtained through questionnaire on college students majoring in composition. It has been interpreted that arrangements and understanding of content of creation study edited in new text books have been properly and reasonably made. The evaluation of children`s music education indicates that poor result has been caused due to lack of basic functional teaching. It is considered that creation study can be normally done if teaching in general corresponding to each grade would have been properly conducted. For the sake of creativity to be produced in common through each of curriculum, programming and operation of the course should be designed so as to lead the creativity into creation study and composition study by gradual development of the creativity. Especially an emphasis should be placed on creative expression in singing, instrumental music, and appreciation. The analysis has proved that creation study done at primary school has been the great help and backbone in specialized composition study at college of music. Therefore, I believe that more thoughtful and effective teaching and guidance should be programmed and conducted.