연주자를 위한 기초음악이론 교육의 개선방안

Towards an Improvement of the Fundamental Music-Theory Education for Performers: Pedagogical Problems of the Harmony Teaching and Its Solutions

This survey begins with a premise that the harmony must be taught in consideration of the learner's major. The teaching methods and contents of the harmony in the past have been focused upon composers, not for performers. However, unlike composers, performers require not only appropriate teaching methods but also suitable textbooks that can fulfill pedagogical excellence. One saw the difficulty of the harmony teaching originate basically from a failure of a precise judgment on the learner’s priori background. The instructor is encouraged to spend more time improving performers' capacity of analyzing music rather than to teach complicated voice-leading rules. In other words, musical insights through an analysis of various music literatures are the ultimate goal of the music theory learning for performers: in particular, the instructor should let performers know that musical syntax and grammar govern tonal music and be aware of the long-distance association between a complex musical surface and a simplified deep-level structure. I have emphasized the necessity of appropriate textbooks that can suffice aforementioned needs and finally introduced practical suggestions for efficient harmony pedagogy. The paper finishes by expecting a workshop or master-class that will accelerate diverse subsequent researches for effective teaching methods.