Rhythm is the most important of all musical components. There could be no music without rhythm, whereas there is much music that has neither melody nor harmony. Music educators emphasize the development of rhythmic perception and response in music education. Because these are essential abilities for all musical activities, children would have difficulty in musical perception and cognition with them. Most music teachers recognize the importance of rhythm in music education, but they don't sufficiently understand the different attributes of rhythm. Rhythm structure, both as an objective physical phenomenon and as a psychological phenomenon, is explained. These two attributes of rhythm are considered as mathematical and musical rhythm, respectively, Music psychologist Jeanne Bamberger's study of children's graphic representations of music is analyzed. Bamberger found that the drawings of children fall into two categories, which she labeled 'figural' and 'metric'. The differences between the two types are based on the kinds of features and relations the children chose or were able to determine : children who made metric drawings focused their attention on measuring the relative duration of events. In contrast, children who made figural drawings focused their attention on grouping of performed events into phrase or figures. Rhythmic groupings may be different for different children while listening to music. Various representational drawings by children for the conventional notation of two short rhythmic sequences are introduced from Bamberger's work to help in understanding the multiple hearing modes of children in rhythm cognition. The purpose of this study is to help in understanding the different attributes of the physical phenomenon of mathematical rhythm and the psychological phenomenon of musical rhythm on a psychological basis, and based on Bamberger's study, to introduce different strategies that children use for rhythmic cognition while listening to short rhythmic sequences. Music teachers should be aware of the attributes of rhythm and both the figural and metric interpretations of the drawings of children and should understand the multiple hearing modes of music cognition that children use and their potential in musical structure. Music teachers who understand the psychological basis of music education can better help children to develop musical intelligence.

제1장 서론 
제2장 리듬의 속성 
2.1. 리듬의 물리적, 심리적 속성 
2.2. 수학적 리듬과 음악적 리듬 
제3장 리듬인지의 다의성에 관한 이해 
3.1. 형상적 그림과 박자적 그림 
3.2. 아동의 리듬지각과 인지방법의 유형 
제4장 결론 
참고문헌 
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