幼児のごっこ遊びにみられる音楽的表現の特徴 : 話し言葉に着目して

抄録

The purpose of this study is to understand the characteristics of spontaneous musical expression in play by four-year-old children. The author has done one year's fieldwork regarding spontaneous play at a four-year old class of a public kindergarten in Tokyo and has observed many cases where musical expression was generated through communicative exchanges among children. The musical expression has been categorized into four types: onomatopoeic words, onomatopoeic words with musical elements, variations of an existing melody, and spoken words with melodic phrases. Focusing on spoken words with melodic phrases, the following two results have been obtained from the analysis of relationship between play and musical expression by looking at the interaction between the inner and outer world of children. 1. Intonation of phrases is directly caused by emotional uplift. 2. Musical expression generated by moves and words is often developed into musical exchange between children.