A New Direction of Music Learning Based on the Cultivation of Music Sensibility

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to find out a new meaning of sensibility of music and to specifically propose a new direction of music learning. As for a new meaning of sensibility, I found Einbildungskraft in the philosophy of I. Kant to be appropriate. Einbildungskraft exists in the bottom of sensibility and it has the same meaning as thinking ability. How should we facilitate the growth of the children's sensibility of music? Firstly, I propose that they should be able to acquire awareness of the worth of music by themselves and so they will have their own sense of music. Secondly, we have to satisfy the children's intellectual desire and develop new curricula based on their mysterious world.