Unit 1 Baihui includes English
This is a unit with the theme of "flowers". Due to the rich teaching materials available, this unit focuses on the internal relationship between "flowers and people" and "flowers and music" in order to closely follow the theme of "taking aesthetic education as the core" and reflect the combination of music and related cultures.
This unit selects the Hebei folk song Jasmine as the students' singing track. Like embroidered pockets everywhere, jasmine flowers in the north and south are also representative works of Han folk songs. In order to improve students' musical quality in an all-round way, this song is presented in the form of polyphony. The rhythm of the two parts is basically the same, and the range is more suitable for the singing requirements of eighth-grade students. In order to cooperate with the singing of songs, a knowledge board is also set up to introduce simple texture knowledge for students to read. The purpose of after-class discussion questions is to arouse students' thinking about the relationship between melody line and intensity, and to guide singing practice consciously in theory.
The folk song Jasmine in Jiangsu is related to the folk song of the same name in Hebei. We can find out their common characteristics from the structure of phrases and the initial and final sounds of melodies, and we can see their differences from the rhythm. Comparing the two is helpful to improve students' perception of material development techniques in folk songs, so as to strengthen their understanding of singing or enjoying songs. Haojiafen is another genre of folk songs-folk songs, with fresh, simple and philosophical lyrics. Although the works such as Song of Peony, Three Wishes for Roses, Glory of Plum Blossoms and Agriculture, etc. take flowers as the theme, they pay more attention to expressing human feelings and affirming and praising beautiful personality. Reading February Orchid with music is a masterpiece of contemporary writer Ji Xianlin's prose. Choosing music for it and reciting it will help students understand the close relationship between literature and music, which are both components of humanities, in expression and expression. Music activities can not only guide students to return to folk songs appreciation, but also help students to stimulate creative thinking and ability through performance practice.
Unit 2 Learning English in Liyuan
The third unit of the first volume of the eighth grade paves the way for students to learn traditional Chinese opera music by learning the practice of playing gongs and drums. As a treasure of China culture, traditional Chinese opera music is one of the teaching contents explicitly mentioned in the curriculum standards, and it is an important material for carrying forward national music and inheriting history and culture. At present, many versions of music textbooks in China are related to opera music, so it is particularly important to innovate in material selection and arrangement.
This unit follows the guiding ideology of "inheritance and development" in arrangement, and strives to reasonably select representative aria and aria in various operas. Considering the actual needs of teaching, this paper takes the song "Singing Face" in Beijing Opera style as the introduction to stimulate students' interest through lively expressions.
Needless to say, Bao Sitting in Kaifeng House and Ba Mei Case are both famous passages in Beijing Opera. The characters created by music are vivid and dramatic, which is easy for students to accept.
There is a sharp contrast between the two balcony songs in butterfly lovers, a famous piece of Yue Opera, and My Beauty Case, a Peking Opera, in character and musical style. Next, the balcony meeting in the violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers" (that is, the answer between violin and cello) can deepen students' understanding of the artistic value of China traditional opera music.
"Who says women are not as good as men" and "Both husband and wife go home" are familiar aria in Henan Opera and Huangmei Opera respectively. Fighting Tigers Up the Mountain is a masterpiece of modern Peking Opera, which pays more attention to the symphony orchestra effect in the form of expression, which is different from traditional opera.
This unit also introduces the common sense of facial makeup of several performing artists and opera characters through stills and music activities.
Unit 3 Orchestral Chord Harmony
In this set of textbooks, this is the column corresponding to "Music of Eight Tones" in the first textbook of Grade Eight. Eight-tone music introduces national musical instruments and works of national instrumental music. This unit introduces the representative musical instruments and works in western orchestras.
In the arrangement of teaching materials, the folio map of western orchestras and representative instruments is presented at first. Next is the appreciation of solo works of violin, cello, flute, trumpet, clarinet and other instruments. Although Shehrachada appeared as a column of "Music Story", the application of each instrument (group) in orchestration is unique, which not only helps students accumulate the timbre of instruments, but also reminds students to pay attention to the expressive force of each instrument (group) in ensemble.
The 39-page fill-in-the-blank exercise is intended to help students independently sort out and analyze the music knowledge appearing in the textbook and prepare for writing "music description" in the future. Although there is no one-to-one specific relationship between the sound effects shown in music and the description of language and literature, it is also a common practice to explain works to students in this way.
Prairie in Central Asia is another drama. The application of musical instrument timbre is closely related to the shaping of musical image, and the musical structure is clear. The polyphonic style of the polyphonic part in texture is helpful to improve students' musical aesthetic experience.
Unit 4 China Land (4)-Dense Forest
This unit is the fourth part of the regular column of this textbook "The Land of China". By showing different forms of music works (including songs and symphonies) about praising and describing forests, students are guided to pay attention to green life and care for the natural environment. Through extracurricular music activities-creating music and planting trees, students' awareness of environmental protection is further aroused. At the same time, this unit, like other "Land of China" columns, can be combined with the geographical knowledge of China to strengthen the organic connection between music and geographical related content.
Song of the Forest is an excellent work praising the forest. It runs through the whole song in unconventional rhythm forms such as weak rise, dotted line, triplet and syncopation, with strong feelings, clear structure, smooth melody and moderate range. Morning in the Big Forest is a fresh and beautiful work praising the forest, which is more free in rhythm than Song of the Forest. Although they are both lyric songs, there is a certain contrast. "Small design" is a link between the preceding and the following in this unit, which is not only an activity to guide students to create music, but also an activity to stimulate students to actively participate in the appreciation of the next three symphonies.
Unit 5 Travel Around the World (4)- Collecting Wind in Oceania
This unit is another stop to lead students to appreciate the world folk music. Due to the limitation of objective conditions, the music materials in Oceania are not very rich, and this aspect is rarely involved in previous textbooks. The name of the unit is marked as "collecting wind", which means hunting, gathering and broadening one's horizons.
This unit mainly focuses on songs and dance music. Shearing wool is a widely sung Australian folk song. From the teaching point of view, songs are a little too young. In order to make up for this deficiency, this unit is presented in the form of two choruses to increase the learning difficulty. In these two songs, chorus, duet, rotation and other forms have been used successively. The use of lining words and onomatopoeia words is vivid and interesting, which is helpful to improve students' interest in performance. Barber is a humorous song with vivid images. Playing "Barber" on clarinet after class highlights the contrast between skipping and Legato.
"Hakamanumanu" and "Lakaraka" are both dance music, which are helpful to improve students' knowledge and understanding of multi-music culture, thus cultivating their sense of closeness to national cultures in other regions.
Unit 6 boating in summer
This unit is the third part of the textbook Four Seasons, which arranges students to study before the summer vacation. The first volume of the seventh grade "Autumn" and the second volume of the seventh grade "sound of spring" are its companion pieces.
Boating on the Sea in Summer is a relaxed and lively three-time song adapted from the aria in Verdi's opera La Traviata, which has a strong sense of movement. "On the Sun Island" is a beautiful and lyrical contemporary song, and the scenes shown in the lyrics have some connection with the students' upcoming summer vacation tourism activities, which is of certain educational significance to students. "Boat Song in June" is a piano music that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, with distinct artistic conception and beautiful and smooth melody. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a symphony overture written by Mendelssohn based on Shakespeare's play of the same name, and it is a model of the combination of music and drama. Because this work has never appeared in similar textbooks, it helps to broaden the horizons of teachers and students; At the same time, it also helps students to combine literary scripts and deepen their understanding of the relationship between music and drama. There are some fragments of natural sounds such as "wind, rain and thunder" simulated by musical instruments in Polka. Judging the practice of musical instruments and the experience activities accompanied by music can effectively help students review the knowledge about the timbre of orchestral instruments in Unit 3. Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is an essay describing the scenery of the lotus pond on a summer night, and reading it to music is the continuation of this routine.