A Study on Improvement of Korean Folk Song(yugjabaegi-tori) Notation and Contents in Elementary Music Textbooks

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper was to point out the problems of the contents of the textbook on music in elementary school and to suggest ways to improve it. The contents of the discussion are as follows. First, yugjabaegi-tori is the scale of Mi-La-do--do-Si-Ra-Mi , and information related to cadence and expression should be written. Yugjabaegi-tori is plagal modes. So the song always ends with la. Second, the skeletal sound of the yugjabaegi-tori is ‘Mi’, ‘Ra’, ‘do’. Third, this scale must represent both ‘do’ and ‘Si’. Fourth, the floating sound should be drawn in the form of floating evenly. Fifth, an intuitive explanation is sufficient for the explanation of musical expressions.