Music appreciation means that the appreciator listens to music through the auditory senses and obtains spiritual pleasure from it. So what qualities are required for music appreciation? Let’s take a look!
1. Must As an art and a social ideology, music reflects real life with its unique musical language. It is nurtured in the cultural soil of all nations in the world, and They also grow in different geographical histories and natural environments, and different cultural backgrounds produce unique and colorful music art. Therefore, music exists as a cultural phenomenon. To appreciate music, you must first have certain humanistic qualities.
When appreciating Chinese music, you must understand:
First, music and history. China is an ancient civilization with thousands of years of history, and it has continued to develop. Thousands of years of tradition and development have enabled China's national music to form a unique artistic style and accumulate a large number of artistic varieties.
Second, music and geography. China's vast territory and rich resources, and its complex and diverse natural environment have formed the diversity of folk customs of various ethnic groups, and also provided a rich source of regional music culture with unique characteristics.
Third, music and society. China is a multi-ethnic country with a large population. The history, religion, language, customs and other social ideologies of various places have formed their own unique culture, and their music has its own characteristics.
Fourth, music and culture. Our country's thousands of years of culture has rich heritage. Various cultures penetrate and influence each other, and have close internal connections. The aesthetic pursuit and inherent unity of traditional culture have formed the coordination, neutrality, simplicity and unity of artistic forms. Adaptation; the subtlety and elegance of artistic expression; the emotion of artistic expression, the combination and penetration of ethics, the "charm" and "artistic conception" of artistic works, the "character" and "look" of creation constitute the style characteristics of Chinese national music.
2. Necessary music knowledge
Music knowledge is the common sense that must be possessed to specifically understand music. Music passes through specific languages: such as melody, rhythm, harmony and many other things. Musical elements make up flowing music. The presentation of musical works is achieved through the auditory experience of a certain period of time and stimulating changes in people's emotions, thereby achieving the result of appreciation. Music knowledge can help people fundamentally understand the performance techniques of musical works, especially pure music works (untitled music), such as Beethoven's. The minuet in G major is named after its tonality and genre. From a literary perspective, it can only be interpreted as the artistic conception of a three-beat minuet, and the specific musical expression must be based on the circuitous and progressive melody progression, continuous Grasp the comprehensive musical elements such as the arrangement of punctuated rhythm, the style and color of the major key, and the contrast of the three-section structure, so that you can accurately understand the connotation of the work: elegant, beautiful, noble, and delicate classical style.
3. Necessary aesthetic foundation
Musical beauty is the product of musicians’ creative labor. Without musicians’ subjective and active creation, there would be no music art, and naturally there would be no music art. There is the beauty of music, and musicians’ creations take social beauty as the source, and natural beauty and social beauty as the basis of creation.
(1) The beauty of music is contained in the artistic sound combination. Music is the art of sound, and the beauty of music is expressed through the artistic sound combination. Whether it is vocal music or instrumental music, most of them are Artistic sounds that have been processed by people according to the laws of beauty, that is, musical sounds. Based on these characteristics, some aestheticians divide the beauty of music into simple sensory beauty and comprehensive formal beauty. Simply feeling beauty refers to the beauty of sound, especially the beauty of timbre. For example, the violin is soft and pure, the cello is rich and deep, the trumpet is strong and bright, and the oboe is pastoral. Each has its own different timbre beauty. However, simply feeling beauty is not the true beauty of music. The real beauty of music is a comprehensive form of beauty. For example, the beauty of melody is a kind of comprehensive form of beauty. It combines musical tones of different heights, lengths, and strengths into expressive forms based on the laws of music art and the composer's creation. Musical melody, harmonic beauty and polyphonic beauty formed on the basis of melody beauty also have the beauty of comprehensive form. Even some comprehensive arts and music genres, such as songs, operas, dance dramas, etc., embody a comprehensive beauty composed of multiple factors due to the combination of lyrics, dramatic plots, dance scenes and other non-musical factors.
(2) Musical beauty is the concentrated expression of emotional beauty. The connotation of musical beauty is mainly expressed in people’s emotional activities. Music’s description of realistic beauty (social and natural beauty) is through people’s psychological experience. expressed with emotional attitudes. It is not like painting art, which is a static art, and its expression can only be momentary, nor is it like dramatic art, which is a combination of expressiveness and other factors. Music is in the process of unfolding, constantly adjusting people's emotional migration in the changes of music development, fully displaying the beauty of the human soul - emotion. In the process of appreciation, such concentration and purity, when expressing emotions, are purer, freer, more inner, more concentrated, and more moving. The sincerity and sincerity constitute another important feature of music, which is most closely related to the human soul. The direct connection is the most intriguing.
(3) Cultivation of musical aesthetic ability Aesthetic ability is related to a person’s experience, temperament, character, education, cultural influence and other aspects. A person’s aesthetic taste also includes some Subjective consciousness of interests and hobbies. Therefore, in the cultivation of aesthetic ability, in addition to the humanistic qualities, music knowledge and other issues explained in the previous sections, one should also realize that music appreciation cannot only treat music as a kind of sensory satisfaction and physiological stimulation. Instead, we should experience the creation of human beauty through music appreciation and appreciate the beauty of music as a spiritual connotation. ① Cultivate aesthetic taste. On the basis of recognizing and respecting personal taste, introduce musical works in a guided and systematic manner to cultivate students' aesthetic taste. ② Expand the scope of music aesthetics and introduce music works of various styles and genres in music appreciation, so that students’ aesthetic tastes will be richer and deeper, and develop in a more personalized and diversified direction. ③ Seeking the perfection of music aesthetics, the Chinese nation has formed its own unique music aesthetic standards in the music tradition that has lasted for thousands of years. The rich changes and high development of horizontal melodies in Chinese music have made the Chinese people evaluate music aesthetics It pays special attention to the beauty of melody and the full play of its expressive performance, which is different from the aesthetic evaluation of European nations where vertical harmony has been highly developed. Therefore, while acknowledging the differences in music aesthetic value, we should seek the perfection of music aesthetics. For example, the Chinese national instrumental ensemble "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night" has won the favor and praise of foreign friends with its beautiful style and rich lyrical characteristics. Some excellent foreign music works are also loved and accepted by the majority of Chinese audiences. The exchange of Eastern and Western music culture It broadens the horizons of music appreciation. Music belongs to the nation and all mankind. With music aesthetics, people will cherish and love the common musical wealth of mankind more.
Qualifications of music teachers
Qualifications of music teachers: positioning
Are you a basic piano teacher or a college piano teacher. Teachers in colleges and universities deal with adults, or students who already have a certain foundation. Their imitation and learning abilities are very strong, so it is easy to be a piano teacher in colleges and universities.
As a basic piano teacher for young children, it is different. We are faced with a lack of knowledge, and sometimes even the language we speak requires careful deliberation and design before they can understand it. So you have to have absolute patience and love to do it well.
Qualifications of music teachers: accumulation of experience
Faced with all kinds of children, their personalities and IQs are also varied and varied. It is impossible to use one teaching material or teaching method to help them learn piano successfully. The piano teacher is like a surgeon. He has to constantly experiment. This method does not work for this child. This lesson is very difficult for this child. This child has strong fingers and can easily stand up. This girl has too many fingers. The fingers are slender and easy to collapse. This child can easily master the music, but the fingers are as nervous as chicken claws. How do you do all this? Or you need to keep learning and experimenting, and finally make yourself better. When you mature, you should either take shortcuts or follow an experienced teacher to master it as much as possible in a short period of time. Piano teaching is very personal. So some time ago, someone compiled a textbook that they thought was perfect, and asked piano teachers to join, and then they would be qualified to be called piano teachers. This is simply nonsense. I believe that the person who compiled this book has never engaged in basic piano teaching for young children.
Qualifications of music teachers: Improve one’s comprehensive musical quality
As teachers, we cannot just position piano learning as piano learning, but use piano as a tool to improve children’s basic musical accomplishment. tool. Children love singing. But they are tired of listening to the lessons and tired of practicing the piano. We integrate with the children and sing songs together. Their boredom and tiredness will be forgotten by the singing. Therefore, the teacher's singing should impress the children, and the piano accompaniment should make them active. If a child loses interest in piano after studying for a while, it is not the fault of the child, but the fault of the teacher. Teachers should continue to learn piano improvisational accompaniment and popular music in their spare time so that they can face all kinds of children.
Qualifications of music teachers: continue to improve piano playing skills and levels
College students who have just graduated should not have no confidence in themselves as piano teachers and should not be too proud and complacent. First of all, the piano demonstration movements should be easy and free, and there should be no undesirable phenomena such as tense fingers, collapsed fingers, stiff arms, excessive wrist shaking, etc. Children's imitation ability is beyond imagination. As a result, we hope that young teachers will listen to the advice of older teachers with an open mind. I once had a young teacher who played the piano very well, but it felt like a puppet painting. The whole arm is very stiff. This phenomenon occurs because the staccato is practiced too little, or even not practiced at all. I asked him and he said he had no idea what staccato was. Piano playing is a coordinated movement of the whole body, not a single finger or arm movement. I asked him a question, but unfortunately he didn't take it seriously. As expected, all the students he brought out were like this, with their arms as stiff as sticks. After a while, the parents asked to change teachers.
Qualifications of music teachers: Gradually master the methods of solving problems
In view of the problems such as stiffness, collapsed fingers, unclear rhythm, etc. in the process of children learning piano, many young teachers even Parents can see that just saying a few words: don't be stiff, don't be soft, etc. will not solve the problem. For example, a 5-year-old child's fingers are soft and easy to collapse, which is a process that all 5-year-old children experience. I clarify the concept of the correct state for them in the first class, rather than changing it later (it is difficult to change a habit). Yesterday a 5-year-old little girl came with fingers like Lin Daiyu's. Obviously, finger collapse is inevitable. In fact, the softness is because they used too much force and the children wanted to make a loud sound. I told her to be gentle, and the sound was very small at first, and then I gently demonstrated it to her. The effect came out, she gently bounced it down and it no longer collapsed. What the teacher does at this point is to encourage immediately: That’s great and so on.
Qualifications of music teachers: Learn to criticize and praise.
When children make mistakes or do not practice well, they should be criticized in time. But you also need to be able to praise in a timely manner. Regular praise without criticism will be tiring and will not be effective. Frequent criticism will make children lose their self-confidence.