실용음악교육의 동향과 실천적 과제

Trends and Alternatives On Applied Music Education

Applied music takes a high percentage in social, cultural and artistic aspects although it has incomparably shorter history and tradition than classical music. The reason is that it is the core element of a creative industry which creates a higher value-added industry such as culture contents industry owing to popularization of cultural art. Another reason is the objective of education laying emphasis on practical and functional education, the shift of valuation and the attitude of students in accepting the education. These circumstances brought into the modification of the education objective and its curriculum due to commercialization of education and the business management for holding the comparativeness in education. As a result, the number of people who need practical music and more professional distributors increased. That resulted in rapid development of academies or colleges to cultivate professionals. However, the development of practical music in terms of academic aspect and quality is unsatisfactory. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the education objective and curriculums of the departments of practical music in college institutions in Korea and identify how these institutions are administered. Furthermore, it seeks to find the ways to develop colleges as an institution to educate and foster professionals in practical music field by solving pertinent matters which most colleges have. More academic, social, functional and artistic development in practical music field is expected and a more active and deeper study is anticipated.