The artistic and educational employment of music and singing in school theater performances

Abstract

The research includes four chapters, the first chapter - the methodological framework of the research, the research problem centered in the following question:

     The importance of music and singing in education? While the importance of the research was manifested as it presents through its human relations a set of educational and artistic values ​​that the school theater aims to convey to the students through its tools called music and singing. It was limited to the school theater performances presented during the period (2003-2008 AD), and the chapter concluded by defining the basic terms mentioned in the research title.

As for the second chapter, the methodological framework of the research, it included two sections, the first of which was about studying a historical view of music and its development, in which the researcher reviewed music and nature, music among the Greeks and Romans, music among the Arabs, and then the lyrical theater that combines music and singing, while the topic of the second is to study the basic elements of construction and music from rhythm - notes- vocal and harmonic harmony.

     As for the third chapter, it included the research procedures, which is the research community, which included thirteen presentations, the research sample, which contained five excluded intentional presentations, explained in a table, a tool, the research methodology, the analysis form, the validity of the tool, the stability of the tool, and the statistical means.

As for the fourth chapter, it contained the results of the research that the researcher reached and discussed, conclusions, recommendations, suggestions, then proven sources and references, and finally a summary of the research in English