First, the meaning of music literacy
For the understanding of music literacy, we should interpret it separately. Su refers to music literacy, while cultivation refers to music accomplishment, which requires contemporary college students not only to have basic knowledge of music, but also to have certain cognitive ability for music. The cultivation of music literacy plays an important role in the cultivation of college students' comprehensive quality. Through the cultivation of music, people can feel relaxed and happy, and their nervousness can be alleviated. Through the introduction of different music works, people's cultivation taste can be improved, which is helpful to build a correct outlook on life and values. In order to realize the great rejuvenation of the nation, it is necessary to strengthen the cultivation of music literacy of the general public.
second, the important position of music literacy training
under the background of quality education reform, contemporary social education is required to take social needs and people's actual development as the main goal, cultivate students' comprehensive quality ability and ensure students' dominant position in curriculum teaching. Quality education requires contemporary education to face the society and the future. Music education in colleges and universities is not only the cultivation of students' music literacy, but also an important way for exam-oriented education to transition to quality education. It plays an important role in cultivating contemporary college students' aesthetic ability and perfecting their personality, and can effectively promote the cultivation of contemporary college students' all-round quality.
Third, the role of music general education in colleges and universities
1. Students' creative thinking can be stimulated through music general education in colleges and universities. Imagination is a unique talent of human beings, guiding people's social activities, and the creation of everything in the world is the embodiment of human imagination. Einstein once said that imagination is higher than knowledge, and its role in human development is far greater than that of knowledge. Music education has the function of aesthetic education. Colleges and universities offer music general courses to let students have a basic understanding of music rhythm, melody, musical structure and expression techniques. Music creators can achieve * * * with the audience through music works, so that the audience can imagine the content and pictures of music works, and let students develop their creative thinking through their understanding of music works, which is helpful to cultivate their creativity.
2. Students' personality can be improved through music general education. There is a subtle relationship between music and people, and people can be educated through music, so music has a certain educational function. Music is the music creator's reaction to real life, expressing the creator's actual understanding of life and conveying positive feelings. Through the transmission of music works to the audience, people can form a positive and healthy outlook on life, have a correct ability to distinguish things, and face the future life with a positive attitude. Contemporary college students are a special group, who like to pursue novelty and are sensitive and impetuous. Therefore, they need to be educated by music, edified by artistic charm, enjoy spiritually, improve their personality and make them a great driving force for social development.
3. Music general education can adjust the mentality. Today's society is a fast-paced society. The rapid development of all walks of life has formed fierce social competition, and people's pressure has gradually increased. As a special group, college students have weak adaptability to society, and social competition can easily form great mental pressure on them, thus affecting their psychological development. Different students have different psychological maturity and stress resistance because of their different growth environment and education. Music general education can use music to promote the coordinated development of the human brain hemisphere, stimulate students' creative thinking, and have a positive impact on people's psychological development. Through research, it shows that the psychological quality of people who have received good music education is better than those who have not received music education. Therefore, in order to make contemporary college students develop healthily, it is necessary to offer music general education courses, edify them with music, improve their musical literacy, form a healthy psychology, and help them grow healthily.
Fourth, the problems existing in the current music general education in colleges and universities
1. The teaching course is single. Although most colleges and universities have started music general courses one after another at present, they are more casual in the course setting, without paying attention to the scientific nature of the course setting. Among the courses set, the appreciation of western symphonic music is the main course setting, which is a single course setting, lacking attention to China's national characteristics and excellent music in the world, and only paying attention to a single music form, which is not conducive to cultivating students' interest in music learning.
2. The allocation of human resources is unreasonable. At present, most of the employees engaged in music general education in colleges and universities have graduated from professional music colleges or come from excellent music performance groups, and they have a solid foundation in music major, but they are particularly lacking in education knowledge. Because they have not received systematic study of modern education theory, they lack certain practical ability in practical teaching and cannot achieve the teaching effect they should have. Most music teachers graduated from professional music colleges, and their comprehensive cultural quality is not high, so they can't impart knowledge simply and directly, which is not conducive to students' learning and understanding of music knowledge.
3. Lack of extracurricular practice. Classroom is the study of theoretical knowledge, which will only be sublimated and developed in practice. Contemporary music education knowledge focuses on classroom knowledge education, but not on extracurricular practical education. The teaching system is not perfect, and students do not show their specialties, which has dampened students' enthusiasm for music learning.
5. How to improve college students' music literacy through music general education
1. Introduce new teaching methods. The traditional teaching mode of music teaching is outdated, which discourages students' enthusiasm for music learning. In the new development period, new teaching methods are introduced for classroom teaching, multimedia software is used to assist teaching, and the original static teaching mode is dynamic, and the teaching content is vividly displayed through the coordination of pictures and sounds, which is helpful to deepen students' understanding of knowledge and enhance their enthusiasm for learning, thus cultivating their interest in music learning, providing motive force for later music learning, improving their musical attainments and upgrading.
2. Vigorously promote elegant music. Through the promotion of elegant music, contemporary college students can be influenced by elegant art and improve their aesthetic quality. With the development of social economy, people's demand for material and spiritual things is constantly improving, and the original backward music can no longer meet people's demand for music. Therefore, we should vigorously promote elegant music, cultivate students' noble pursuit of life, and meet the needs of socialist spiritual civilization construction.
3. Give full play to the active role of music teachers in colleges and universities. In the current music education in colleges and universities, some teachers lack a sense of responsibility, do not pay attention to the quality of classroom teaching, and appreciate music works is the main content of classroom teaching. The unchangeable teaching mode has seriously hit students' enthusiasm for learning, and students have not paid enough attention to music general courses, which hinders the cultivation of students' music literacy. This requires teachers to reform the teaching mode, constantly improve their professional ability, improve their artistic accomplishment, learn to discover beauty, and pass this beauty on to students, guide their development, gradually enhance their enthusiasm for music general education, stimulate their creative thinking, and enhance their artistic accomplishment, which is conducive to the development of their comprehensive quality.
Conclusion
The development of music general courses in colleges and universities plays an important role in improving students' artistic accomplishment and cultivating their comprehensive quality. Therefore, we should pay more attention to music general courses in colleges and universities, constantly reform teaching modes and improve teaching quality, and let contemporary college students form a complete and sound personality under the influence of excellent artistic atmosphere, which will help to promote the personality development of college students, cultivate a group of outstanding university talents and provide high-quality talents for China's economic development.