APSMER2017 PROCEEDINGS

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Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research
(APSMER 2017) 19th to 21st July 2017, Melaka MALAYSIA
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years much less after a year’s engagement and intervention but it is the
first thing that has to be identified. The key question in a community
engagement is, “what is your dream?” and “how can you realize that
dream?” The logic model is the blue print which provides answers to
questions, “what changes in the community does one want to see?” and
“how can one achieve that change?”
The ability to make music is the immediate end of music
education but when music education is used as an intervention to
empower a person or a community, it must inform and transform lives.
The CMSL program envisions a community of persons whose lives are
influenced by the discipline of music, touched by its beauty, and
inspired by its perfection, with the hope of bringing back self-esteem
and self-worth lost by extreme poverty. Only when this
impoverishment is abated can society form good citizens.
Figure 6: CMSL Program Logic Model
Figures 7, 8 and 9 show the development of the CMSL in 3
years. Each year has a designated color so as to easily identify which
ones were realized and what changes occurred in each year. The
development of CMSL in 2013 shows that the children were able to
perform in the recital. The music learning was primarily by rote, i.e.
the use of chords for guitar and keyboard and largely dependent on
hearing not reading music.
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