The difference between music education and musicology: professional categories, learning directions, and training goals.
1. Different major categories: musicology major is an art major, and music education major is an education major.
2. Different learning directions: The music major’s courses mainly include composition, vocal music, piano skills, and harmony. The music education major’s courses include not only music majors, but also pedagogy and educational psychology. Learning, music teaching methods, Mandarin teaching and other teaching-related contents.
3. Different training objectives: The musicology major is mainly to cultivate talents with basic theory of music performance and applied knowledge of artistic practice. The music education major mainly cultivates talents with musical practical skills and teaching abilities.
Musicology is the general term for all theoretical disciplines that study music. The research objects and focuses of musicology are different in different periods. In addition to the basic research objects, musicology includes physiological behavior, creative behavior, performance behavior, aesthetic behavior, acceptance behavior, and learning behavior of music.
The music education major cultivates and creates specialized talents with good musical literacy and teaching abilities that meet the needs of the construction of a socialist market economy and educational reform and development. Through the study of this major, one can adapt to the development requirements of teachers' professionalism, systematically master the basic theories and methods of music education, and be able to engage in education and teaching after the reform of the new music education curriculum in primary and secondary schools.
Employment fields for music education graduates
1. Music teachers in middle and primary schools and art colleges and universities.
2. Professional literary and art group performers, singers, and creators.
3. Music teachers and counselors in social children’s art training institutions, youth palaces, and children’s homes.
4. Cultural bureaus, cultural stations, grassroots factory and mine enterprise trade unions and related departments, managers and counselors of institutions and organizers of cultural performances, competitions and other activities in various municipal and county administrative, enterprise and public institutions.