21st Century Innovation in Music Education

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the implementation and impact of the national music curriculum of the United Kingdom (UK), a curriculum that has was designed specifically to stimulate the development of students’ musicality in the elementary school of Luqman Al Hakim, Kota Gede, Yogyakarta Territorial Special Regency, Indonesia. The national curriculum emphasises cross-curricular themes, skills and intra-personal learning. In this study, we discuss how the implementation of the UK curriculum in music subjects improves students’ musical abilities, particularly the ability of students to apply melody, harmony and rhythm to a song. Through the approach and experimental method, data were obtained by a post-test only control group design. The results showed that through the application of the UK curriculum, students’ musicality improved in the areas of applying the right melody, rhythm and harmony to a song.

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