Music appreciation is an important part of music teaching. It is an important way and means to cultivate students' interest in music, expand their musical horizons, improve their musical feeling, understanding, and appreciation abilities, develop their imagination, enrich their emotions, and cultivate their sentiments. . The ability to appreciate music is not only one of the important signs of a person's aesthetic accomplishment, but also one of the signs of cultural quality. The educational effect of music appreciation on students cannot be replaced by any other teaching method. Here are some thoughts on the new textbooks.

1. Teaching from the outside to the inside, from the shallower to the deeper

The improvement of the level of music appreciation teaching is not achieved overnight, but requires a development from the outside to the inside, from the shallower to the deeper. Process Our music predecessor Mr. Huang Zi believes that when appreciating music, the listener has to go through such a psychological reaction process: perceiving external sound → developing imagination and association → getting emotional resonance → understanding. Therefore, we must follow this psychological reflection process when teaching appreciation, and guide students to gradually develop from low-level intuitive appreciation to high-level emotional appreciation and intellectual appreciation. This is not only in line with the psychological reflection process, but also conducive to appreciation of teaching.

2. Lecture carefully and listen more when appreciating teaching

First of all, appreciation is experienced through hearing. In order for students to understand musical works, they must first have a sensitive perception of musical expression methods. To achieve this requirement, they must appreciate a large amount of music. It is impossible for language to replace music and express works, because musical works can be understood from different heights, angles and depths. We know that even for the same work, the same audience (listener) will have different feelings about the work on different occasions and in different moods. Therefore, in teaching, you cannot give tedious and lengthy lectures without leaving the artistic image of music, because if you talk too much, it will inevitably distract students' attention and hinder students' independent thinking. Necessary work analysis and knowledge introduction should be proactive, concise and inspiring. The purpose is to attract students' attention to the music and enable students to deeply understand the meaning of the works through discussions between teachers and students, listening and other activities. Thought content.

3. Comparative teaching, flexibly design different lesson types

Make the themes, singing (playing) forms, musical forms and titles of the works obvious, and make them easy to compare. Arrange to teach together. This allows students to more accurately feel and understand the different thoughts and feelings expressed in different musical works. It also enables students to understand music more deeply and understand the rules of music performance in the process of music appreciation.

1. Design the curriculum with the theme as the center. With a certain theme as the center, music and musical works of different performance forms are combined together for music appreciation teaching. It enables students to gain concentrated experience from the appreciation of music works in different performance forms and understand how musicians use different musical expression methods to express different music and themes.

2. Design a lesson type centered on the form of singing (playing). This lesson type combines the same music performance form, content, and music works with different themes to carry out music appreciation teaching. For example, in music appreciation classes centered on "solo singing", solos with different voices, different historical periods, different styles, etc., such as male voices, female voices, children's voices, etc., can be combined for teaching. This will not only help students learn, understand classic music works in different performance forms, and broaden their musical horizons.

3. Design the lesson type centered on the form and genre of the work. This lesson type combines musical works with the same musical form structure or genre for teaching. For example, music appreciation teaching is carried out centered on "One Piece" or "March", "Variations", etc. This will help students understand music form, genre and other relevant music knowledge, and at the same time, it can also enable students to fully understand the relationship between music content and music expression, allowing students to fully feel the formal beauty of music.

4. Fully mobilize students’ imagination, association and other abilities when teaching music appreciation

Imagination and association are inevitable psychological phenomena for music appreciators, and they are creative aspects in appreciation teaching. psychological activities.

In appreciation teaching, we should give full play to students' subjective initiative, inspire their rich imagination about music, and guide them to accurately experience music emotions.

In the process of appreciating music, students are required to express the musical emotions they experience and the musical images or artistic conceptions they imagine by writing poems, prose, feelings after listening, and drawing pictures. . This method is conducive to cultivating students' association, imagination, creative thinking and artistic expression abilities. This method must be carefully guided and given ample time. In teaching, we should not only pay attention to inspiring students' imagination and association skills, but also pay attention to the guiding role of teachers. Due to limitations in students' age, knowledge level, aesthetic experience, etc., their associations and imaginations are often somewhat different from the basic emotions and content of music, which requires careful guidance from teachers.