The similarities and differences between primary and secondary school music courses at home and abroad are as follows:

1. In terms of hardware facilities.

Both primary and secondary schools in cities and rural areas abroad have formal music classrooms that implement multimedia teaching and are equipped with various audio-visual instruments, grand pianos, electronic keyboards, percussion instruments and other facilities. In our country, there are very few musical instruments, and most of them are organs and electronic keyboards. There were few percussion instruments for the students to accompany their singing.

2. Teachers.

Foreign music teachers are graduates of music schools who have passed strict teacher qualification examinations and obtained qualification certificates. Many graduates of Japan's best music universities are engaged in education, thus ensuring the quality of the teaching staff. Many graduates from my country's first-class music schools go to literary and artistic groups. This cannot but be said to be one of the reasons why we have certain differences in education compared with advanced countries.

3. In terms of curriculum setting.

Music notation is used in foreign primary and secondary school music teaching materials, and the content includes music from the country as well as Western music, as well as music from Africa, Latin America, and Asian countries. In addition to basic knowledge such as music appreciation, music theory, and sight-singing, music classes in primary and secondary schools also include the study of songs and instrumental music as the main content. Song learning is mainly based on polyphony.

The value of music courses:

1. Aesthetic value: Music education takes aesthetics as its core and mainly affects people's emotional world. The basic value of music classes is to enable students to fully experience the beauty and rich emotions contained in music sound forms through aesthetic activities focusing on listening to music, performing music and music creation activities, so as to help students develop healthy and noble aesthetic tastes and a positive and optimistic attitude towards life, which laid a good foundation for his lifelong love of music, art and life.

2. It has creative development value: Music creation is full of charm because of its strong and clear personality. In music classes, lively music appreciation, performance and creative activities can activate students' desire for expression and creative impulse, demonstrate their personality and creative talents through active participation, and enable their imagination and creative thinking to be fully utilized.

3. It has the value of expression and social interaction: Music is in many cases a group activity, such as unison, unison, chorus, ensemble, duet, ensemble, song and dance performances, etc. This kind of mutual cooperation Group music activities are also a kind of interpersonal communication with music as a link. It helps to cultivate students' collective participation and a cooperative spirit of mutual respect.