A brief discussion on early childhood music education and the development of children's emotions
It is an innate emotional state. The famous perception expert Gibson pointed out: Early infants' perception and attention-guided behavior are in It can occur without any learning. Infant curiosity is a factor of emotional motivation and an important human instinct.
From the time children are born, their interests are expressed through the functions of their bodies. In addition to their sleep and physical discomfort, children's seeing, listening, making sounds and movements are all aroused and guided by the basic emotion of interest. Throughout history, there are many examples that prove that a love of music can promote people's intellectual development. The first person in the world to design a jet plane was Leonardo da Vinci, a painter who studied both music and mechanics. Darwin discussed the role of music in promoting intelligence in "The Origin of Species": "If you lose your hobby of music, you will undoubtedly lose part of your happiness, and it may even affect your intelligence." ?The great scientist Einstein regarded music as an important source of his scientific inventions and creations. He not only loved music, but also regarded music as a component complementary to science. There are countless such examples.
Stimulate children's interest in music, and then influence and expand children's interest in many things around them, cultivating children's broad interests. The melody and rhythm of children's music itself, as well as the expression of the lyrics in the songs, deeply attract young children. It is a good method to use music itself to stimulate children's interest. For example, the middle class's percussion piece "Little Swallow" is a piece of music with a single three-step structure. First, let the children feel the beauty and joy of the music. During the appreciation process, the children can distinguish the contrast between the two sections before and after the music and the middle section, the contrast between the beauty and liveliness of the melody, and the contrast between the rhythm changes, which all stimulate the interest of the children. In addition, The children were particularly impressed by the changes in action performances. Another example is that the contents of many children's songs are both interesting to children and very familiar to them. At the same time, they are highly playful, so children's interest is particularly high. "The Little Mouse on the Lampstand" was originally a folk nursery rhyme. After being adapted into a song, the children are asked to use their hands to play the role of the little mouse. Any part of their body acts as a lampstand, and the position of the lampstand is changed every time it is sung. It is carried out in the form of games, the children are very interested and the performances are vivid and colorful.
Music itself makes young children full of curiosity. Music is an auditory art, and young children are naturally curious about various sounds. The strength, pitch, speed, variety of rhythm types, and ever-changing notes in music The combinations, as well as the different sounds produced by various musical instruments, etc., attract young children and inspire them to explore this magical and mysterious world of music, and gain satisfaction and happiness from it. The song "The Echo of the Valley is So Nice" is to allow children to feel the changes in the intensity of music during singing and express the echoes in life. Children consciously control their own volume when singing weak sounds, and allow children to listen to the effect of their own singing. Children are all It sounds great, really like the echo of the valley! "The Tall Man and the Dwarf" allows children to distinguish the high-pitched area and the low-pitched area through the contrast of high and low areas, and trains the sensitivity of children's hearing. The children play the role of the tall person in the high-pitched area. , playing a dwarf in the bass range, the changes in pitch control the child's acting behavior, and the child's interest is very strong. In daily life and teaching, providing children with appropriate knowledge in a timely manner, paying attention to developing their intelligence, encouraging and guiding them to ask questions and other educational methods are conducive to promoting the development of children's sense of reason.
For example, in the game song "What Instrument is Singing", children listen to the sounds of some musical instruments while singing, feel the wonderful performances of different musical instruments, and know the names of the instruments and their performance. Stimulate children's interest in musical instruments.
At the same time, some simple percussion instruments are placed in the music area of ??the activity room, allowing children to freely match the rhythm to the music while listening to the music, and encourage children to boldly match the rhythm according to the animal images shown in the music, such as expressing the rhythm of a horse running. After discussion, the final decision was: | Gradually, they will also choose different percussion instruments for different contents expressed in the music, such as tambourines for heavy rain, bells for light rain, etc. This shows that the children are fully exploring their own hands. of musical instruments. Music can not only stimulate children's interest, but also promote their intellectual development.
4. The development of children’s sense of beauty. Children’s sense of beauty is based on children’s continuous happiness.
Happiness is one of the most basic positive emotions for children, and it is of great significance in children’s lives. Happiness enables young children to become mentally functional persons and is extremely important for their healthy personality growth. Happiness contains the experience of strength, courage and confidence. Young children often get happiness from success, which helps to form an optimistic and cheerful character from an early age.
The source of children’s happy emotions is the satisfaction of needs. Wherever possible, we should create a safe environment for young children so that they can live in a warm and caring environment and give them a happy childhood life. The diversity of children's music forms? Singing, rhythm, song performance, dance, games, percussion and appreciation can bring great satisfaction and great happiness to children's music activities. For example, in the music game "Little Rabbit and the Big Bad Wolf", when the children listen to the music of the Little Rabbit and are invited to the whole class, the children feel the joy of playing together. However, when the music of the Big Bad Wolf starts, the children What they feel is the joy of becoming all kinds of trees, flowers, grass, stones, wood, etc. that the big bad wolf doesn't like to eat, to show their intelligence and wit, and when the big bad wolf looks left and right, he can't find it. Any little rabbit has no choice but to return to his home hungry. The children's happiness reaches a climax? Happy cheers! When the children learn songs, dances, and song performances, and often with the encouragement and affirmation of the teacher, The children all rushed to stand in front of everyone and show themselves very confidently. They experience the joy of success and gain happiness and confidence from it. This kind of confidence is a kind of self-affirmation and contains a kind of strength and courage.
Beauty is people’s emotional experience of the beautiful characteristics of objective things or objects. It is an emotion of affirmation, satisfaction, pleasure, and admiration that arises when people with certain aesthetic abilities evaluate beautiful things. Aesthetic experience has two distinct characteristics. One is the experience of the perceptual features of the aesthetic object, which is the basis for the generation of beauty; the other is the emotional resonance caused by the perception and appreciation of the beautiful object, and gives people a sense of Inspiration and strength, this kind of beauty has its roots in infancy and early childhood. Gardner believes that at the early age of two years, babies have a tendency to experience life and divide the world into good and bad, happiness and pain. He also believes that children and art have an affinity with books. ?I believe that the view that all normal children have basic artistic tendencies is a valid and useful one. ?Children have a preliminary ability to appreciate music, art, poetry and other artistic works, and experience beauty from music, dance and other artistic activities and art works, and their evaluation standards for beauty are also increasing day by day. The beauty of music itself is a reflection of people's thoughts and emotions. There is a saying in "Legends of Music": The heart of all sounds is born in the heart, the movement of the human heart is the result of things, and it moves when it is touched by things. Form in sound. ?Children will be happy when music makes them happy, sad when music makes them sad, angry when music makes them angry, and feel the beauty of music in a variety of emotional experiences. Such as the musical "Little Bear Treats". The children hate the lazy and greedy fox very much. They like the hospitable and smart bear, the chickens, puppies and kittens who have a clear sense of love and hate. During the performance, you can feel the love and hate of the children from their singing, movements, and expressions.
Especially the appreciation of some famous songs, such as Schumann's "Fantasia", Saint-Sa?ns' "Overture and March of the Lion King" and "Aquarium" from Saint-Sa?ns' Animal Carnival Suite, etc., the children listened and said , there is such wonderful music in the world! At the same time, children also have their own aesthetic standards. Some say this song is good, some say that song is good, and they can also tell the reasons why they like it! In the rhythm music " During the performance of "Uprooting Luchai Flowers", at the beginning, the children all beat their own instruments desperately. As a result, some children said that it didn't sound good at all and was very noisy! After the children's own discussion, they unanimously agreed that percussion instruments should have By tapping in a controlled manner and cooperating with each other, the ensemble will sound good. Through repeated practice, the children will consciously cooperate in tapping. In the end, the children will feel the beauty of cooperation. Music not only gives children the influence of beauty, but also develops their appreciation of beauty and cultivates their aesthetic ability.
In short, music plays a unique role in cultivating and developing children's emotions. Despite this, human emotions are quite rich in connotation, and the function of music education cannot cover them all. However, we should better explore the unique advantages of music itself and combine it with other artistic means to better cultivate and develop children's emotions. Let them grow up healthily and happily!
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