Gardener, a well-known developmental psychologist and professor at Harvard University in the United States, once said: "Among all the talents that an individual may have, musical talent is the earliest to appear." Children's response to sounds begins during the fetal period. It started. In the third month of pregnancy, most fetuses have feelings for external sound stimulation. They respond to the sound stimulation with movements and changes in internal breathing.

From birth to four months, the fetus can be said to be the first stage of the development of musical "pre-ability".

4-18 months is the second stage of baby’s “pre-ability” development of music. At this time, the baby's babbling sounds will gradually increase, and his pronunciation ability will be continuously stimulated by the parents talking and singing to him. Babies after 6 months can listen to music and care about various sounds almost like adults. Children over 1 year old have developed their ability to listen and distinguish sounds. They can accurately distinguish sound sources and quickly distinguish different sounds with small differences. For example, when I see a train, I am particularly interested in its whine, and I will lengthen my voice to imitate the train whine.

At the age of one and a half, when the child's language development enters the "babble-learning-singing period", the child's musical life will undergo an important turning point. For the first time, they began to independently produce sequences of punctuated sounds that detected various small pauses. They also invented some spontaneous songs that were difficult to record. Soon they began to produce small fragments or unique melodic phrases heard from familiar songs around them. , this is the official beginning of children's singing and rhythm activities. During this period, the child's curiosity and ability to explore sounds will grow together. The various interesting sounds in the surrounding environment will continue to attract those toddlers. As the child's language skills develop and the body's ability to move itself increases, he will gradually Ability to find and develop the location of sounds he likes. At this time, he will also show a special interest in some interesting music, such as certain music clips in TV commercials that will fascinate him. If he can hear and come into contact with a guitar, keyboard or other musical instrument at home or in kindergarten, he will feel very magical and happy.

Children aged 2-3 who develop rapidly can imitate longer melody segments of a song better and begin to try to "dance" with the music. They particularly like sounds with a distinctive rhythm. They will nod, jump, spin in circles, sway, and swing their arms spontaneously to the music. When playing some of their favorite music games, their concentration time will be significantly increased, they can sit or lie quietly and listen to music for several minutes at a time, and they can also learn to follow simple game rules. From this age, young children gradually become interested in real musical instruments. At first, he will show interest in listening to musical instruments and recorded music. On this basis, if he can come into contact with some toy instruments that can make nice sounds, such as sand bells, tambourines, wooden fish, triangles, small bells, He will play the snare drum with great interest, which will lay a good foundation for the development of his rhythmic ability and future instrument learning.

The development of infants’ musical abilities cannot be uniform and identical, and depends to a large extent on the influence of environment and education. If the baby's living environment is very poor, does not receive proper care and food, and lacks a minimum sense of security, the baby's laughter may appear later. If the baby's caregiver is not his or her mother, and the caregiver changes frequently, the baby will have difficulty recognizing sounds. A baby's musical ability does not arise out of thin air, but can only develop gradually under the influence of environmental stimulation and education. Understanding the development of infants' musical "pre-abilities" before the age of 3 can help us better discover the unique musical potential hidden in young children, create an appropriate environment, and provide necessary stimulation to enable this kind of development. The delicate artistic potential is properly protected and explored, laying a good foundation for the development of children's musical abilities.