The four dimensions of music core literacy: autonomous music needs, music practice ability, music emotional experience, and music culture understanding.
1. Autonomous music needs: Autonomous music needs are the basic motivation for students to consciously carry out music learning and music activities, and are also the concrete manifestation of students' independent development of literacy in the music discipline.
Developing students’ independent music requires different levels of emotion, cognition and will. One is to develop an interest in music and take participation in learning music and music activities as a way to achieve a happy life and satisfy aesthetic needs. The second is to actively use music as a tool to maintain mental health and harmony with actual experience.
2. Music practice ability: Music practice ability is the focus of students’ music literacy. The musical practical abilities that ordinary high school students should possess mainly include musical expression and performance abilities, music appreciation and aesthetic abilities, music creation and imagination abilities, and musical communication and cooperation abilities. The core of which is the ability to express emotions through music.
Students’ mastery of musical practice ability should be application-oriented, focusing on the music activities that students often perform in school and after graduation, focusing on cultivating the ability to choose appropriate works for expression and communication, and the ability to feel and perform excellent works. Ability, ability to improvise and create, etc.
3. Musical emotional experience: Musical emotional experience refers to students’ direct experience (emotional experience directly generated by music perception) and indirect experience (music emotional experience) during music activities such as listening, singing, playing, and moving. Emotional experience generated by representation and association), using music to express and express emotions, or to perceive and stimulate emotions from music, this is the key process for music to transform from acoustic form to emotional essence.
4. Understanding of music culture: Understanding of music culture is an important social and humanistic quality. High school students have the necessary cultural understanding of music, which will help students understand music from the perspective of social development, and also help students understand society from the perspective of music development.
Understanding music culture should include recognizing the art form and cultural characteristics of music; understanding the relationship between music and other arts; and understanding the mutual influence between music development and social development.