A distinctive feature of "Children's Classical Music Appreciation" is that it uses music appreciation as training material to professionally improve children's four abilities - attention, speech ability, memory and imagination and creativity:
< p>Attention improvement stage: The repertoire in this stage are all short and highly visual. The material of the repertoire is full of children's life. They have the basic structure of music rhythm, melody and other elements. Through listening, singing, body Rhythm and game movements allow children to actually experience the intensity, speed, pitch, space, rhythm and other factors of music in a natural and unconscious situation, so that they can understand and distinguish vocal music, instrumental music, and further understand various timbres. Classification, various forms of instrumental music performance, while completing the training of children's reaction agility, attention width and breadth.Speech ability improvement stage: This stage is a set of concrete repertoire with strong storytelling and interesting nature. The music is varied, rich and undulating, which can arouse greater imagination. Music is a language of human beings, and language ability is the most important basic ability in the structure of human intelligence. According to Orff's theory, music is combined with painting, poetry, performance and other forms in a gamified way to train children's speech ability in several aspects:
A: Training children to recognize words and words , sentence understanding, application and construction ability;
B: Train children to grasp and describe the sequence, process and regular relationship of practical development;
C: Train children to understand and summarize and general language abstraction and logical thinking abilities;
D: Train children's ability to understand meaning and recognize the essence of things;
E: Train children's oral, written, composition and language communication abilities.
Through systematic training in the above aspects, children's speech ability will be improved by more than 4 times compared with children of the same age.
Memory improvement stage: This stage is composed of repertoire with different musical forms, representative instrumental music, rhythm, melody, harmony and sound form expression and style. Human memory is not innate, it must be cultivated and trained. Music is the best teaching material to cultivate children's memory. Through this set of music appreciation, children can easily improve their memory.
During the critical period of children’s intellectual development before the age of 13, memory training through this set of classical music can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Imagination creativity improvement stage: This stage is about appreciating a group of popular famous music, including Mozart's "Symphony No. 41", Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" and "Symphony of Destiny", Henry Del's "Water Music" and so on. At this stage, children are guided to listen carefully to different sounds with their ears, feel different changes with their hearts, and then let their imaginations fly and enter the field of appreciation. Let the music travel with their feelings and let the children be immersed in the colorful world of music. Reaching the level of intentional thinking from subjective to objective and from concrete to abstract appreciation is an excellent training for imagination and creativity.