A person who studies music, if he doesn't learn music literacy, is equivalent to a robot who plays the piano and sings mechanically, unable to understand, understand and express music. Therefore, learning music literacy is to comprehensively improve students' comprehensive quality of music, promote students' study of professional disciplines, and enhance their ability to perceive, understand and create music.
At present, there is still a lack of understanding in learning music literacy. As far as teachers are concerned, they think that a class is limited and most of the time is spent teaching musical instruments. How can they have time to guide students to learn music literacy? This kind of thinking is prone to the phenomenon that the performance ability is seriously out of touch with the music literacy ability. With the deepening of the learning level, students' reading speed is slow, the reading error rate is high, and they can't understand the connotation of music, which leads to lower efficiency of practicing piano, longer learning period, increased pressure and disappearance of interest. On the parents' side, ignoring the law of music education, encouraging children to learn and blindly asking teachers to catch up with the progress and level led teachers to give up the teaching of music literacy courses. Even if they pass the exam, they can only play one or two tunes and know nothing else. This situation is a great misfortune for piano learners, and it is also a waste of time for teachers and parents to cultivate children.
So, how to pay attention to the cultivation of music literacy?
1, raise awareness. Music literacy is a basic music course, and everyone who studies music must master it. It is as important as Chinese characters, words and grammatical structures to writing. Music literacy teaching is not a question of distribution and learning, it is the cornerstone of music. Music literacy is a compulsory course in conservatory of music and attached middle school. It is a compulsory course of the Conservatory of Music and the content of the National Young Singers Grand Prix. It is also an introductory course for students to learn musical instruments. Practice has proved that students who study music literacy can have four abilities: listening, arguing, singing, reading, watching and appreciating. Listening and arguing-can listen and argue various rhythms and standard music sounds; Singing and reading-you can solfeggio if you can get the score; Play-if you can get points, you can watch; Appreciation-the ability to appreciate, understand or express the connotation of music. If you don't have these qualities, you can't learn music. Therefore, music literacy teaching is one of the compulsory courses for students to learn musical instruments.
2. Be familiar with textbooks. The Grading Course of Music Basic Literacy compiled by the Music Grading Committee of China Music Association is a basic teaching material being popularized at present. This textbook has the following characteristics: (1) Starting from the current level of social music education in China, considering the current situation of amateur music learning, teaching ability, implementation conditions of graded examinations and other factors, it is a primary textbook that is relatively easy to teach and learn; (2) The content setting, schedule arrangement and grading method of the teaching materials should fully consider the service for the candidates who study musical instruments, which is helpful for the candidates to learn musical instruments quickly and well and use them. (3) The content and grading method of teaching materials are mainly based on quality training, supplemented by skill training, emphasizing foundation, practicality, step by step and operability. The content of this textbook is divided into four levels: the first level is simple solfeggio (listening, arguing, touching and solfeggio); Level 2 general solfeggio (listening, arguing, touching, solfeggio, dictation) basic music theory answer questions; Level 3 complex solfeggio, mode and harmony foundation, two dictation; Basic knowledge of music about musical form, band composition and musical style in CET-4.
3. Mastering methods Music literacy teaching should integrate theory with practice and pay attention to interest teaching. Students' interest in learning can be cultivated and improved through rhythm games, listening to music, touching songs, teaching children's songs and dictation competitions. We should prevent boring theoretical teaching, and listening practice should focus on feeling music; In music appreciation, we should give priority to cultivating sentiment; In music thinking, we should focus on cultivating students' creative ability, study step by step according to the principles of teaching materials, do more exercises, do more hands-on and write more, and don't memorize theoretical concepts. It should be combined with learning musical instruments to strengthen the cultivation of solfeggio and ear training ability and improve the speed of reading music. As long as the teaching methods are appropriate, students' interest in learning music literacy can be enhanced and their learning progress can be improved.
4. Taking the exam and passing the exam of music literacy is a good way to improve students' enthusiasm for learning music literacy and test the learning effect. Generally speaking, the content of the exam is: all interviews are level one, and there is no written test. Mainly rhythm imitation, pitch touch singing, melody short sentence touch singing, the judges randomly selected questions through the computer. The second level includes interview and written test. The content is solfeggio 1. When solfeggio, you can sing with the first key, fixed tone and "pull". The contents of the written test are interval and chord listening, dictation of rhythm and melody, application of music theory and musical terminology. It was also randomly selected by the judges through the computer. The third level includes interview and written test. The content is solfeggio 1, and the solfeggio method is the same as level 2. The contents of the written test are chord listening, dictation, music theory application and music terminology. Among them, there are 2 questions for one-part melody dictation, 2 questions for two-part melody 1 and 2 questions for chord connection. It was also randomly selected by the judges through the computer. Band 4 is written in the form of listening, debating and commenting, covering musical instrument categories, names, western musical styles, world regional music, Asian musical styles, China opera music, China rap music, China instrumental music, world pop music, famous western composers and their musical styles, musical terms and so on1.
Music major in university is a two-year course! At present, the piano grading test also has the regulation of training all-round talents in cooperation with the music quality test!
What is music literacy?
Broadly speaking, music is any kind of artistic, pleasant, prudent or other arranged sound. The definition of so-called music is still controversial, but it can usually be interpreted as a series of organizations with temporality to sound and silence, including the rhythm, melody and harmony of different scales. Music can be experienced in several ways, and the most traditional one is to listen to musicians on the spot. Radio and television can also play live music, similar to listening to tapes or watching music videos. Sometimes live performances will be mixed with some pre-recorded recordings, such as the friction sound made by DJ with records. Of course, you can also make music, sing, play musical instruments or compose music loosely. Even deaf people can experience music by feeling the vibration of their own bodies. The most famous deaf musician is Beethoven, and most of his famous works were written after he completely lost his hearing. When people want to learn music, they go to music classes. Musicology is a broad field of music history and scientific research, including music theory and music history. As an ancient art, many music schools have changed. Ethnomusicology, as a branch of anthropology, is a discipline that specializes in the origin and development of these schools.