Functional understanding of music education: an effective tool for cultivating children’s artistic literacy and an educational method for professionals.

Effective tools for cultivating children’s artistic literacy:

Music education generally begins in kindergarten all over the world. In ancient China, music was regarded as one of the six artistic talents that scholar-officials should possess. As for formal music education in China today, it lasts until the end of the nine-year compulsory education, that is, graduation from junior high school. Ordinary high schools also generally offer music classes.

Education methods for professionals:

As professional musicians, they generally need to undergo specialized higher music education. However, currently, most professionals engaged in popular songs and pop music have not. Higher education specialized in music relies on one's own talents and self-study.

Introduction to music:

Music is a symbol, a sound symbol, that expresses what people are thinking. It is one of the carriers of people's thoughts. Music has a purpose and connotation, which contains the author's life experience, thoughts and feelings. From the sound wave analysis of music, it is between noise and pure tone with constant frequency. In terms of effect, it can bring people beautiful enjoyment and express people's emotions.

Music is a form of social behavior through which people can communicate with each other about emotions and life experiences. This role is most prominent in songs.

Basic elements of music:

The basic elements of music refer to the various elements that make up music, including intensity, tonality, duration, timbre, etc. These basic elements are combined with each other to form the commonly used formal elements of music.

1. Melody: Melody is also called melody. The ups and downs of music are organized horizontally in an orderly manner according to a certain rhythm to form a melody. Melody is the most important means of expression in music form, the essence of music, and the decisive factor of music.

2. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the speed and strength of the mid-tones in the music movement. The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of music. Beat is the periodic and regular repetition of heavy beats and weak beats in music.

3. Harmony: Chord is usually a combination of three or more tones that overlap vertically according to certain rules. The horizontal organization of chords is the harmonic progression.

4. Strength: the strength of the midrange of the music.

5. Speed: how fast the music progresses.

6. Mode: The sounds used in music are connected according to a certain relationship. These sounds form a system with one sound as the center, which is called mode. Such as major mode, minor mode, my country's pentatonic mode, etc.