Talk about the importance of sight-singing and ear-training teaching in preschool education majors

Sight-singing and ear-training courses are the most basic courses in music education in preschool education majors. Sight-singing and ear-training training is very important for It plays a very profound role in cultivating students' musical quality and improving their comprehensive ability. It is of great significance to students’ future development in life.

Abstract: Sight-singing and ear-training courses are an important part of music education in preschool education. On the one hand, the sight-singing and ear-training course can cultivate students' musical performance ability, develop students' imagination, and help us understand other courses. As a breakthrough basic course, it helps the comprehensive development of music education in preschool education. This shows that it is a required course for students to learn the importance of professional knowledge and future development. There is training and education in music, vocal music, piano, sight-singing and ear training, dance, and children's song creation. Other subjects are created on the basis of music theory, sight-singing and ear training. Educators should help students master music skills through teaching activities and acquire music knowledge and abilities in practice. Therefore, we must strengthen sight-singing and ear-training training and realize the importance of sight-singing and ear-training training.

Keywords: Preschool education; sight-singing and ear training; importance

Preschool education aims to cultivate outstanding talents, kindergarten education and professional interests in children as its basic goal. In order to improve the overall quality of kindergarten children, preschool educators should have musical literacy and improve the quality of teaching activities. Preschool education professional curriculum teaching includes basic music theory, sight-singing and ear training, music, piano accompaniment and ear training, basic vocal music, rhythm and dance education. As a student majoring in preschool education, learning music knowledge, improving musical expression, and improving music education play a key role in preparing for future teaching. Audio-visual ear training and basic music theory use basic practice methods such as writing and singing to train students to listen to the rhythm of music, associate and recall related elements, and improve their mastery of music scores and rich musical vocabulary. Audio-visual ear training includes: auditory training, rhythm and music practical training. Therefore, students' learning activities in the classroom should be carried out through reasonable practice methods. These educational methods play an active guiding role in kindergarten music education.

1. Sight-singing and ear-training courses

Sight-singing and ear-training are generally divided into sight-singing and auditory training. Sight-singing means using the music scores you see to perform music. There are very strict requirements for specific knowledge of musical notation. The specific content of the performance requires professional performance, and the standards to be met also have corresponding requirements. Ear training refers to training and practicing hearing. Usually, students are required to constantly listen to the melody and rhythm in music, and be able to identify the corresponding rhythm, chord and other basic components [1]. At the same time, different people and different instruments have different timbres, so identifying sounds is an important part of ear training for students. The study of basic elements is the key and foundation of music learning. The training and learning of sight-singing and ear-training is learning the basics of music. Moreover, the learning of sight-singing and ear-training can not only facilitate the understanding and learning of other music courses, but also cultivate students' understanding of music. The love of music improves students’ musical literacy and comprehensive ability. At present, many preschool education majors in colleges and universities have not fully realized the importance of sight-singing and ear-training courses. This has hindered students' understanding and learning of basic courses to a certain extent, resulting in students' poor grasp of basic knowledge, which in turn affects other Course study and improvement of musical literacy.

2. The impact of sight-singing and ear training on music theory courses

Music is called music theory. It includes basic theory, reading music, chords, intervals, rhythm, etc. There are also more complex theories such as harmony, melody, and polyphony. What we usually call music generally refers to the most basic part of music theory, which is called: basic music theory [2].

The basic music theory course for preschool education majors is relatively simple compared to professional music, and some important chapters generally do not undergo in-depth professional analysis and discussion. Preschool education majors in colleges and universities will enter the study after the completion of the basic music theory course in music education. Sight-singing and ear training courses are relatively short-lived to set up. I learned the most musical knowledge in the sight-singing and ear-training courses. No matter how simple the sight-singing and ear-training music is or the complex music theory, it must be consistent with the basic music theory knowledge of rhythm, beat, mode and tonality. Then through the flexible application of basic music theory knowledge learning, musical quality is improved, and sight-singing and ear training provide theoretical prerequisites for other music courses. Moreover, basic music theory plays a leading role in sight-singing and ear-training learning. The education and learning of sight-singing and ear-training courses play a certain basic role in vocal music education and learning. Sight-singing and ear training exercises are conducive to the grasp of melody and rhythm, and at the same time, it is beneficial to improve listening and music reading abilities, and ultimately help students improve their independent creation and performance abilities and overall band coordination. Generally speaking, the study and training of music reading is the most basic element in music learning. Through the training and learning of sight-singing and ear training, students' music reading ability has been improved, and they have reached the state of being able to sing music directly. Students' grasp of rhythm and melody can be improved through the training and learning of sight-singing and ear training. This process is continuously improved and improved for students with poor sense of rhythm. At the same time, in vocal music learning, along with appropriate accompaniment, it directly affects the singing performance. During sight-singing ear training, students' hearing becomes sensitive, which directly contributes to learning the integration of vocal singing and accompaniment. Sight-singing ear training helps improve students' performance analysis, song ability and creativity.

3. The impact of sight-singing and ear training on the basics of piano

Piano learning is inseparable from the study of music scores. Learning music notation is the basic course for learning piano. Under normal circumstances, when teachers teach students to practice piano, they often ask students to look at the music score and touch the keys with their fingers. This is a standard performance procedure, but when the eyes cannot accurately see the specific conditions of the keys, students need to rely on their own ears to distinguish whether what they are playing is the same as what is on the music score. In learning to play the piano, the reliance on music scores is continuously shortened, and the process of becoming familiar with the music scores is reduced, thereby accelerating the progress of piano learning [3]. The content of sight-singing and ear-training courses in preschool education majors mainly cultivates students' ability to listen to music scores. Students' memory of different elements in music learning plays a very important role in the perception and understanding of music. Therefore, the study of ear training courses is of great significance to piano performance. In the process of teaching piano playing, teachers use different methods to express the speed, intensity, and intensity of music so that students can better grasp the rhythm. While strengthening the tacit understanding between students and teachers, it can also improve students' ability to listen to music scores and focus most of their energy on piano performance itself. This will help improve students' piano performance. At the same time, the improvement of piano playing level also enables students to have a better grasp of the training of music listening and identification skills.

4. The impact of sight-singing and ear-training on children’s song teaching

Due to the particularity of the major, students majoring in preschool education generally have to learn some things in addition to vocal music. Children's songs. Since students majoring in preschool education usually have to perform preschool education work, the work content is also related to preschool children. Therefore, when conducting educational activities, we should choose to learn more simple children's songs and songs with simple melodies. The brightly melodic songs set up for sight-singing and ear-training courses for preschool education majors are a complement and improvement to traditional vocal music teaching. Strengthening the sight-singing and ear-training learning and training of children's songs in music teaching in preschool education majors is fully consistent with future work content.

5. The impact of sight-singing and ear training on the creation of children's songs

The creation of children's songs is also one of the required courses in music education in preschool education. Children's literature and children's music are combined to create children's songs. It occupies an important position in music learning in preschool education majors.

The characteristic of children's songs lies in the understanding of children's psychology and characteristics. Generally speaking, the content of children's songs should be as simple as possible, the rhythm should be as lively as possible, and the melody should generally be simple. The psychological characteristics of children are very different from those of adults. Generally, the style of children's songs should be considered and lively elements added to the creation. Sight-singing and ear-training courses play a fundamental role in the creation of children's songs and are a prerequisite for the creation of children's songs. Audio-visual ear training is conducive to students' grasp of rhythm and the improvement of students' listening ability. Therefore, before composing children's songs, the creative elements that must be possessed for children's song creation must be complete. The collective is the creation of content and the grasp of melody and rhythm. . Once these basic elements of children's song creation are complete, the problem of children's song creation can be basically solved. Under normal circumstances, when choosing children's songs, don't think of choosing children's songs of the same style, but also consider other forms of songs. In the process of creating children's songs, choose children's songs of different styles for learning and creation, and improve your ability to play and sing at the same time.

6. The impact of sight-singing and ear training on improvisational accompaniment

Improvisation refers to a state of performance in which the performer performs without any preliminary preparation. Improvisational accompaniment is a creative form that involves temporarily constructing melody and harmony without performing musical scores [4]. Playing with some auxiliary instruments requires the accompanist to have a good grasp of the keys and music scores, change the accompaniment melody and rhythm according to changes in other factors, and at the same time rely on the changes in the accompaniment melody to quickly model the performance of the improvised accompaniment. The style and characteristics come out, and some structural adjustments and content changes are used to express the artistry of the work. The training and learning of sight-singing and ear-training in preschool music education can improve the level and ability of piano improvisational accompaniment. In normal sight-singing and ear training training and learning, mastering the rhythm has a great relationship with the quality of the entire improvisational accompaniment. Mastering the rhythm is conducive to the structure and overall context of the entire improvisational accompaniment. Generally, when improvising accompaniment to some songs, the most important thing is to select the rhythm according to the original style. Different accompaniments require different rhythm styles to express different styles, which will bring different hearing to people. Feeling, on the other hand, means that during the practice and study of sight-singing and ear training, one should cultivate one's overall grasp and feeling of the vocal music content, and promote the improvement of the sensitivity of the listening ability. Finally, there is the training of mode and tonality. The practice of sight-singing and ear-training courses for preschool education majors will also include the training of modal and tonal music. In the process of improvisational accompaniment, you need to be exposed to the accompaniment of music in different modes and tonalities, so your ability to play music in different modes and tonalities has been improved through practical exercises. The influence of sight-singing and ear training on improvisational accompaniment is obvious. Therefore, effective learning of sight-singing and ear training plays a guiding role in improvisational accompaniment activities. If you effectively combine these two aspects of practice and continue to practice learning and training, your improvisational accompaniment ability will be improved.

7. The impact of sight-singing and ear-training on dance courses

The sight-singing and ear-training course comprehensively trains students’ sight-singing, listening skills, and music appreciation, and then continuously Improve students' perception, expression and appreciation of music. Such abilities play a positive role in promoting dance learning. Because in dance learning, students' understanding and perception of rhythm, tone, and timbre are required. Then the study of sight-singing and ear-training courses is the study of this series of content. Therefore, if the learning effect of sight-singing and ear-training is good, it will inevitably affect the quality of dance learning [5]. When taking dance classes, the teacher will ask students to train and learn dance moves according to the rhythm. Since the performance of dance movements must be combined with music and at the same time separated from the score, it is believed that the perfect connection between the dance movements and the soundtrack mainly depends on the dancer's grasp of the dance soundtrack and dancing according to the rhythm. performance of action. After being regularly exposed to different rhythms of dance, many students are unable to master instant speed changes. In sight-singing and ear-training studies, training and exposure to various types of music enable students to have a certain understanding of dance soundtracks.

Furthermore, when learning dance, it is normal to understand the dance works in advance. You can stretch your body based on the music you are already familiar with and perform dance movements that match the rhythm. Pay attention to the integration of dance movements and music rhythm, dance style music and dance style, music emotion and the emotional relationship of dance performance, etc. Students who are undergoing sight-singing and ear training training and learning can grasp the unique style of the entire music and perfectly configure the dance movements in the entire music. And it can accurately integrate dance style and emotion into the music, and complete the segmentation and integration of dance movements.

8. Conclusion

In short, the positive effect of sight-singing and ear-training course education on music itself is very extensive and far-reaching. Therefore, sight-singing and ear-training training for preschool education majors in colleges and universities needs to combine systematic scientific theory with specific practice to improve students' musical literacy and educational ability and cultivate musical talents. Taking auditory training as the main teaching step and content, this key factor should be integrated throughout the music teaching to improve students' music level. The education of sight-singing and ear-training courses not only has a profound impact on the improvement of music quality, but also provides certain support for dance learning, and scientifically and effectively promotes the quality and progress of dance teaching. Sight-singing and ear-training courses are the most basic courses in music education in preschool education. Sight-singing and ear-training training plays a very profound role in cultivating students' musical quality and improving their comprehensive abilities. It is of great significance to students’ future development in life.

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