Conceptualizing the Capstone Project Through Possible Research Topics, Approaches, and Methods in Music for Senior High School Students

This paper aimed to briefly discuss conceptualizing a capstone project through possible research topics, approaches, and methods in music for senior high school students. In conceptualizing possible research topics in music, this paper includes two (2) categories: curriculum-aligned research topics and academic and practical research topics. For curriculum-aligned research topics, these were taken from the three (3) specialized subjects under the Arts and Design Track of the present K-12 curriculum, including the following: Creative Industries II: Performing Arts, Apprenticeship and Exploration in the Performing Arts (Music), and Production in the Performing Arts. On the other hand, academic and practical research topics were lifted from the author's works. Exemplary research topics and literature reviews were conducted through Google Scholar, as this platform provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. This initiative was to prepare senior high school students for lifelong learning through planning, implementing, and presenting a culminating project reflecting their personal interests and the competencies they have acquired in secondary education.