Music concept teaching direction of career electives subject 'Music appreciation and criticism'

The 'Music appreciation and criticism' subject is one of high school career electives subject. The subject differs from the general elective 'music' subject in that it focuses on listening and criticizing various music that can be handled at the high school level. Nevertheless, in the various activities of music appreciation and criticism, music concepts are still important and in the critical activities involving language, music concepts are required as more important learning. The purpose of this study is to find the direction of music concept guidance in the subject of 'music appreciation and criticism'. To this end, we examined the theoretical background of applying high school musical cognition development and musical concept to teaching and based on this, we identified the essence of the 'music appreciation and criticism' teaching and what should be considered in teaching and by comparing the curriculum of 'music' subject with 'music appreciation and criticism'. Through this process, the direction of music concept guidance for 'music appreciation and criticism' was divided into the application of music concept and music concept teaching as a presentation of the contents of the curriculum. I hope this study will help guide the music concept of the 'music appreciation and criticism' subject.