With the in-depth implementation of quality education, there are more and more exchange and performance activities for children's dance, and excellent children's dance works emerge one after another. However, the lack of children's dance music has become a major problem for children's dance choreographers. Except for some qualified choreographers who specialize in composing music for children's dance, most choreographers are faced with the problem of finding children's dance music. So, how to choose children's dance music? What kind of music is suitable for children to dance? In my opinion, children’s dance music should be selected from the following aspects.

1. Clear rhythm. Children's cognitive abilities are limited and their self-control ability is weak. It is very common for children to snap or drag pictures. This directly affects the neatness of dance movements. To avoid this from happening, you must choose music with a clear rhythm. Because the speed of children's movements needs to be reminded by prominent points, beats and various strong accents. This is why children are so interested in drumming, disco and other types of music. The music has a strong rhythm and is easy for children to master, so they can dance freely and to their heart's content.

2. The melody is easy to remember. Since children's dance is a children's performance, the music melody should also be easy for children to remember. On the one hand, this kind of dance music allows children to strengthen their understanding of music after memorizing the music and can better express dance; on the other hand, it also allows children to deepen their impression of dance and facilitate the spread of dance works. Melodies that are easy to remember have the following characteristics: First, the melody is pleasant, and the music first gives people a beautiful impression. Second, the phrases are short, and children can distinguish the rise and fall of the phrases in dance music after listening to it twice. Third, the intervals do not jump much. Children's voices are immature and the range of sounds they can sing is limited. This requires that the maximum jump of the melody interval cannot exceed the range of ten degrees that children can reach.

3. The orchestration is simple. Nowadays, some choreographers fall into this misunderstanding when choosing music for campus children’s dance. They like to choose music with a lot of decorative sound effects. For example, based on the original melody, many small bells, various snare drums, various bird songs, wind and rain, and other natural sound effects are added, or even children's shouts are added in the middle of a song sung by a human voice, thinking that this is It will make the music elements richer and more interesting for children. In fact, this is not the case. Excessive decoration will only cover up the connotation of the music itself. Too many small decorative sound effects will confuse the original rhythm of the music, giving people a disorganized impression on the ears. On the other hand, some choreographers now choose modern-style music works as the music for school children's dance. Although this is beneficial to expanding children's horizons, modern-style music has complex rhythms and trendy orchestration techniques, making it difficult for children to understand. master. In fact, in the process of children's dance creation, the simpler the music orchestration can give the director more and wider imagination space, because the director does not have to spend time trying to figure out how to use or coordinate the decorative sounds, so there is no restriction on the created music. Children's dance is often close to children's life, the most simple and full of children's interest.

4. It has a sense of the times. Children living in today's era are influenced by various cultures of today's era, and their thinking, behavior, and conversation are also deeply imprinted with the times. When choosing music for children's dances, you should also pay attention to the contemporary feel of the music. Because the music of today's era is closest to children's school life, can best reflect the style of today's children, and is also easiest for today's children to express.

Most of the music in today's society is new computer music or orchestral or ethnic orchestral music with high-quality recordings, which is highly audible. If the music produced by the outdated electronic synthesizer from ten years ago is used again, it will only make children feel distant and not know how to appreciate and understand it. They will not be able to enjoy the beauty in hearing and will become bored with the music, which will further develop into rejection of dance. The national instrumental solo music we can find now has basically been added with computer music or orchestral accompaniment, and the national orchestral ensemble music has also been newly recorded in various versions. Only children's dance music with the characteristics of the times can be accepted by children of today's era and facilitate the spread of dance in today's era.