Children Arts Education, Music education Program Proposal by Music Museum school

MUMUSCHOOL is an acronym of Music, Museum and School, provides children with a field where they can understand the relationship between humanity and music and encounter various musical worlds through distinctive musical instruments of various tribes in the world. The museum of MUMUSCHOOL holds the secrets of human history such as arts, science and history.

By touching and playing musical instruments of different countries in the world, children realize that the musical instruments are not relics in the museum, but are played now across the globe, comprising a living culture, and develop sensibility and creativity.

:: History of Programmes carried out
2012. International Exposition Yeosu Korea 2012 Official Culture and Arts Programme

2011. Tumen River International Arts Festival, China “MUMU Asian Friends Project “Mindoro Island Mangyan Tribe, Philippines
2010. National Museum of Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education , Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, etc
2009. Art Center Nabi, Youth Performing Arts Festival of the National Theater of Korea , Arte Creative Arts School for Children, Uijeongbu International Music Theatre Festival, etc
2008. Jeju National Museum, The National Library for Children & Young Adults, Gimhae Arts and Sports Center, Goyang Oulimnuri,
2007. National Museum of Korea, Jeonju National Museum, Chuncheon National Museum, Korea Arts & Culture Education Service

MUMUSCHOOL Main Programmes

1-1 MUMU Class

Global Music Story using global musical instruments

With Nature+Human+Music as the theme, it is possible for children to recognize origins of folk musical instruments, principles of sounds and their meanings using about 60 global musical instruments from about 30 countries in the world, then to regard Nature, Human and Music as the one, which leads to understanding on global multiculture.
Children have a time to see, hear, touch and feel rare and precious musical instruments of various kinds in the world. The origin, history, materials, production process and purpose of use of the musical instruments are explained, stimulating children’s curiosity. Thus, children learn the fundamentals of musical instruments and acquire a broad worldview and creativity which help them to understand cultures of other peoples.

[ Learning Process ]

• Hearing sounds of musical instruments
• Feeling materials of musical instrument
• Thinking about the birth of sound

Do you wanna hear? This musical instrument made of cactuses makes the sound of rain.
Do you wanna touch? This musical instrument made of human leg bones makes a tearful voice.
Do you wanna make a sound? This musical instrument causes resonances in the mouth.

1-2. MUMU Workshop
Assembling Natural Materials into a Musical Instrument.
How great my hands are! The First Musical Instrument Made by my Hands with the Present from Nature.

How many kinds of materials can we get from nature? The numbers are great beyond your imagination. The class started with introducing folk musical instruments made of the natural materials and then moved to making instruments. The “Bird Flute” in Southeast Asia, the Kalimba in Africa (thumb-piano) and the calabash rattle were easy to make but the children felt challenged and confidence in doing it on their own. Also, the class has the children felt easy on utilizing tools by careful guidance.

The Rain Stick is a traditional instrument in the Andes region, Chile to communicate with the god of rain. It is mainly made of cactus and belongs to the percussive instrument (shaker). The instrument is made by pushing in the cactus prickles and putting pebbles inside the cactus. By shaking, it sounded like rain-falling and was played in the rain-calling ceremony.

The children painted interesting ethnic symbols under the guide of arts teachers to maximize visual and educational effect. This was a chance for children to understand the structures including the resonating devices of the primitive musical instruments. 

This would help their job to make crafted musical instruments.

Let’s have a time to play the instruments. The children naturally has confidence in making musical instruments while listening to the sound from their instruments.

1-3. MUMU Lounge
‘Global Musical Instrument Museum’ displays rare and precious musical instruments owned by MUMUSCHOOL so that children can view and appreciate musical instruments of various peoples of the globe and learn their materials, production process and purpose of use.

This serves as a chance for children to encounter culture and wisdom of humanity. Field for children to read books on musical instruments and play them in person for their personal experiences.

          

1-4. MUMU Ensemble
Let’s play Earth musical instrument

Class for making children experience the feeling of movement of music through performance with professional performers and lecturers, after letting each of children understand their respective musical instruments to play and carry out basic exercises with the lecturers. Gathering for blowing global rare horns to make sounds, playing various percussion instrument and strings instrument.


[ Instrument ]

Djembe, Angklung, Kalimba, Didjeridoo, Harp etc

1-5. ONLY ONE

Crafted Musical Instrument Making Project for Children

• Spread wings of hope through arts
• Creative education to find out my unique value
• Nurture confident and creative talents through experience of artistic creation.

This is an educational program for artistic creation. It is aimed to help find out one’s unique value through arts education. In this program, each of participants produces one instrument of a kind in the world with one’s thoughts and purpose and presents it.
Even through the process of creatively making musical instruments is an arts education in music, we may say that it is a comprehensive education including arts and music. Children acquire knowledge of arts and science and creative ability in relation to production of musical instruments. They produce and present musical instruments that they imagine. This process gives children an opportunity to boost pleasure and confidence in artistic creation. The educational objective of the program is to explore potential creativity and imagination of children and let them find out their own values.

Instructors are Yemin (President of MUMUSCHOOL) who has been pursuing transformation of Korea’s music education through about 200 sessions of concerts for branch elementary schools and MUMUSCHOOL (Museum Music School) and Korea’s famous figures of music, art, dance and literature.

[CURRICULUM]

Stage 1. Communication and Meeting with Arts
Stage 2. Arts Education through Experience
Stage 3. Arts Education with Nature
Stage 4. Motivate the Children with Imagination and Creativity
Stage 5. Making My Own Crafted Musical Instrument
Stage 6. Child Artists’ Activities

Stage 7. Harmony with Various Arts

Read more detail about curriculum
http://blog.naver.com/mumuschool/50088882524

Watch & Listen to sample of ONLY ONE crafted musical instruments
http://blog.naver.com/mumuschool/50102772840

1-6. WISHING TREE
Crafted musical harp making project

MUMUSCHOOL Planning Schedule

MUSIC & MUSEUM SCHOOL

STUDIO 2703 TRUMPWORLD III, HANGANGLO3GA,
YONGSANGU, SEOUL140-883 KOREA
TEL* +82 2 6409 6008 FAX* +82 2 6008 5352
Email* mumu@mumuschool.org

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