School education primarily aims at fostering creativity in today's rapid-changing society, and students are taught to boost their creativity in diverse ways in music class.
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of creative music drama ac...
School education primarily aims at fostering creativity in today's rapid-changing society, and students are taught to boost their creativity in diverse ways in music class.
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of creative music drama activities on the musical creativity of students, as music drama is one of the ways to step up the improvement of the musical creativity of students and stir up their will to create.
The meaning of creativity and musical creativity and the relationship between the two were discussed to determine the right directions for this study, and the value of music drama related to music education was explored. Earlier studies of music drama were reviewed to devise a new instructional model for the creation of music drama, and music instruction models related to the development of creativity were investigated. And then the selected students created music dramas by employing an instructional model for the creation of music drama devised in this study. Finally, Wester's Measure of Creativity Thinking in Music-II(MCTM-II), which was a musical creativity inventory, was utilized to assess their musical creativity before and after the experiment, and the collected data were analyzed and interpreted.
The instructional model for the creation of music drama consisted of generalized music drama creation stages based on Seo Yang-ha's music instruction model, Kim Kyung-ae's creative guidance model and earlier studies. And the creative music drama program was composed of nine sessions, which involved four sessions of pre-activities and five sessions of main activities. The four sessions of pre-activities belonged to a training stage where students practiced how to compose songs of music drama, and consisted of word play, making improvised melody, composing short songs, and presenting/evaluating. The five sessions of main activities provided a chance for students to create a music drama and were composed of preparing, composing songs, acting/singing practice, and performing/evaluating.
As a result of applying the instructional model for the creation of music drama, the following findings were given:
First, the musical creativity of the students was checked before and after the experiment, and there were significant gaps in musical durability and fluency between the pretest and posttest results, but no significant differences were found in musical originality and musical composition skills. According to the total scores of the MCTM-II, there were significant gaps, which indicated that the creative music drama program had a significant impact on musical creativity.
Second, in terms of the perfection of music drama, the degree of collaboration among every group member affected the perfection of the music drama they created.
Third, it was possible to form musical conceptions in the course of composing songs that were used in the music drama.
Fourth, the creative music drama program contributed to igniting their interest in music drama.
The findings of the study illustrated that the creative music drama activities exerted a positive influence on not only the improvement of musical creativity but the formation of musical conceptions and enjoying music as part of life.