Re-recognition of Creative Music Making in Schools :

Relation Between Music and Image

Abstract

  This study determines the new educational significance of creative music making. Furthermore, it examines the relation between an image and music as well as the self and others from the perspective of Jacques Lacan’s mirror stage theory. Lacan insists that a subject always loses the self and acquires ego by reflecting on others. This theory suggests that image and music are objects for self-reflection. This study clarifies that creative music making is attained by transforming sound into music and coming across the sound that it demanded, and not through the development of an image. Then, what is the function of an image in creative music making? The image simply provides opportunities to make music. Furthermore, the image is generated by the ego, which is acquired through the music. Thus, music teachers must think of ways to teach the techniques of transforming sound into music. The new music is made by music. And the new music that is not language produces conversation for reasons for it. From these findings, the significance of creative music making is to recognize the self and allows for an opportunity to communicate with others in society.