ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate how music activities in forest environments influence the development of musical fluency, musical originality and musical imagination of young children. The trials were carried out sixteen times from mid-April to the end of August employing four to five-year old children from 2 childcare centers located in Yongin City, Kyeonggi-Do, Korea. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 19.0 statistical software to obtain the mean, standard deviation, and covariance. The results are summerized as follows; The children in experimental group, who took the music activities in the forest environment, showed the significantly higher musical imagination than those of the children in control group who had musical activities in the classroom of childcare centers. The obtained results suggested that systematically designed application of diverse lessons on musical activities in forest environment to the children might promote their curiosities and degree of flow, which leads to fertile musical imagination.

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