1. Cultivating students' aesthetic ability
Musical music, as an art form, is itself the carrier of emotion, and musical works with high artistic value are helpful to stimulate students' aesthetic emotion. Musical music, like other works of art, can enhance students' understanding of all walks of life through their appreciation activities; By going deep into the inner world of the characters in the play, we can experience the rich emotions of human beings, so as to gain a pure feeling and enjoyment of beauty beyond utilitarian desires.
Musical drama is a collection of music, dance, art and many other artistic categories. By enjoying musicals, students can get comprehensive artistic edification and aesthetic education, which is of great significance for cultivating aesthetic concepts, developing aesthetic feelings, influencing moral sentiments and forming comprehensive artistic aesthetic ability.
2. Improving students' comprehensive ability
The learning process of musical appreciation course is actually a process of improving the ability of feeling, appreciating, understanding, expressing and creating music and improving music accomplishment. The theme of musical art involves the history, religion, culture, customs and other aspects of a region, country or nation. Appreciating and appreciating this stage art means understanding and learning about human history and culture. Offering musical appreciation course can broaden students' musical horizons, enrich their musical experience, consolidate and improve their musical knowledge and skills, deepen students' understanding of different art categories and related knowledge, and enhance their cultural taste and artistic accomplishment in a subtle way.
3. Stimulate students' innovative ability
Innovation and creation are the driving forces of social development. "The cultivation of creative spirit and creative ability is one of the important goals of art education and the highest realm of aesthetic education." Therefore, it is particularly important to combine quality education with the cultivation of innovative ability and bring it into the teaching reform of music education to cultivate students' innovative consciousness and creativity. Among many artistic forms, the theme of musical contains profound philosophy, and many important and sensitive life propositions are put forward to the whole society through vivid artistic images.
The teaching of musical appreciation course is of great significance for cultivating innovative talents with practical ability and cooperative spirit. Through the study of musical appreciation class, students can not only listen to touching music and enjoy beautiful dance, but also stimulate their vision, memory and thinking to participate in aesthetic activities at the same time, and their aesthetic imagination and appreciation ability are further exercised. By transplanting teaching from the traditional classroom to the outdoor, giving students the stage, allowing them to participate in the practical activities of musical art in a positive and active atmosphere, choosing their own creative themes, and creating musical works that are in line with campus life and the main theme of the times, teachers can maximize students' artistic potential, cultivate creative thinking, stimulate creative impulses, and improve their ability to comprehensively use various knowledge.
second, the current situation of the musical appreciation course in higher vocational colleges
Usually, in the university music appreciation course, the musical is conducted as a section. After class, many students feel that they are still wanting to know more about this popular and wonderful art, but because of: 1. There are few or no local classic musicals. 2. The high ticket price and the high rehearsal cost of musicals always keep the ticket price of musicals high (for example, the ticket price of the Chinese version of Mamma Mia recently ranges from 12 yuan to 88 yuan), and many working people are discouraged from its ticket price, not to mention students who have no economic income. 3. Lack of guidance to appreciate. Therefore, it is difficult to fully feel the infinite charm of musicals. Of course, these are only objective factors.
As a kind of art that will flourish in China in the future, as a contemporary college student in China, how can we enjoy some excellent world-class musicals? How to make students feel the unique charm of musical?
We can learn to sing through the introduction of musical background information, musical appreciation (drama structure analysis, music analysis, dance appreciation, stage art analysis), and musical classic interludes, so that students can get in touch with the movie version of the musical, such as Mamma Mia, which will make it easier for students to accept the musical. After all, the movie version has the advantages that the theater version does not have: 1. The effect of using the natural environment is incomparable to the design of dance beauty. 2. The use of film editing, through the selection, selection, decomposition and combination of a large number of materials shot in film production, finally completes a coherent and smooth work with clear meaning, distinct theme and artistic appeal. Most importantly, actors have the opportunity to make mistakes and make corrections, so the performances of actors appearing on the screen are always in the best state.
When students know about musicals, they can enjoy the theatrical version. Of course, the theatrical version also has its own charm: 1. The actors have profound singing, dancing and performance skills, so each actor's performance accounts for a large proportion, and more depends on the actors' solid performance skills to support the musical. In this way, the artistry of musicals has been fully demonstrated. 2. Because the theatrical version of the musical is a live performance every time, each performance will be more or less different because of the different states, different collocations and different performance places of the actors. For example: the addition of local dialects, the occasional improvisation or forgetting of words by actors, etc. The author once found that when the Chinese version of Mamma Mia toured Fuling Station, during the performance, when Sam appeared, his trouser legs were tied in socks. 3. The most attractive part of the theatrical version is that the actors on the stage or the stage design can interact with the audience. The stunning and amazing dance design makes people feel like they are in it, and it is difficult to tell whether they are the audience or the people in the play. In The Phantom of the Opera, director Harold Prince and stage art designer Maria Beyonsson not only reproduce the magnificence and dark mystery of the Paris Opera House, but also design numerous organs up and down the stage like the ghost of genius in the story. Take the fascinating opera house chandelier as an example. This gorgeous replica consists of 6, small light bulbs, 3 meters wide and weighing 1 ton (the real lamp weighs 8 tons). It took five workers four weeks to make it. According to the plot, at the end of the first act, the chandelier fell to Christine's feet under the control of the furious ghost. This huge prop lamp was actually placed above the audience on the first floor of the theater. As the plot progressed, she fell to the audience's head, and the braking device didn't exert its power until the last moment-at this time, the shocked audience could feel the horror atmosphere created by the ghost.
Therefore, only by keeping pace with the times, following the perceptual law of the musical art, highlighting the characteristics of the subject, teaching all students in accordance with their aptitude, establishing an equal and interactive relationship between teachers and students, and using modern educational technology, constantly exploring new ways of teaching musical appreciation in higher vocational colleges, * * * promoting the popularization of musical appreciation in ordinary higher vocational colleges, and giving full play to the educational value of musical, thus improving the comprehensive quality of college students.