Children are young, have narrow knowledge and weak understanding ability, and often cannot fully express their feelings during music appreciation activities. In order to make music appreciation teaching activities more interesting, the author uses visual methods such as alternating movement and stillness, blending scenes, etc., so that children can fully feel the fun of the activity.
1. Story method
Due to the limitations of children's own understanding of music, they cannot well reflect their inner feelings and correctly express their understanding of the works during appreciation activities. . Before teaching children to appreciate works, I compiled musical works into stories and told them to them according to the characteristics of children's love of listening to stories and the different requirements of appreciation. For example, in "March of the Lion King", before enjoying it, children can first tell the story to form a majestic image of the Lion King in their minds, and then analyze the different timbres of each phrase, such as the dense and deep piano timbre from low to low. The high and upward lines remind people of the lion roaring; the uniformly jumping alto tells the image of the lion approaching at a leisurely pace, and then each phrase is connected in series to form a complete musical image. It is not only easy for young children to understand, but also has a profound memory.
2. Chart method
In song appreciation activities, teachers usually let children listen to the songs first, and then ask questions about the lyrics. This method is relatively simple, and teachers often use it for the purpose of teaching. Teaching, repeated many times can easily make children lose interest. The chart method expresses the lyrics in the form of pictures or special symbols. While guiding the children to appreciate it, the teacher will show the pictures showing the lyrics sentence by sentence. The children will have an all-round experience from vision to hearing, and their memory of the lyrics and music will be deepened. , can maintain attention and actively use the brain during the learning process. For example, "Little Bird" is a children's song with a beautiful melody and a positive attitude. Each section of the lyrics has three words, and the melody is ascending in a ladder-like manner. Before listening to it, I first drew the lyrics on a card, arranged them by sections, and discussed them through conversations. Let the children guess the content of the picture, and then sing it after arousing interest. Open the card while singing. The children will quickly memorize the lyrics by comparing the card with the card while listening.
3. Dance method
Music and dance are closely linked. Using dance expertise, different levels of music can be vividly expressed using dance vocabulary to help children transform abstract music into The concrete movements allow them to appreciate the fun brought by music during imitation and performance. For example, the music appreciation of "Four Little Swans" has an ABCABD structure. I first designed the A section to look like a swan jumping. The cheerful eighth notes resemble the lively and cute look of the swan when it jumps; the B section was designed to look like a swan looking left and right, 4 points. The notes show the elegant and steady appearance of the swan; section C is repeated twice, and the music has a crescendo trend from low to high. I use the movement of a bird flying to express the feeling of the swan in the air. The first time it flies gently, The second time the movements were slightly larger, gradually flying high and far away... The music in section D faded out and had a prolonged feeling. I walked gently on tiptoes to express it, and asked the children to walk gently and slowly. Two beats go once, and the last section ends with collective clapping. During the whole activity, the children's emotions were high. In repeated performances, they gradually integrated movements and music, and could initially understand the musical images represented by different movements. In the extension of the following activities, I encouraged the children to make up their own movements to match the music. They can all be integrated into the beautiful music, and the activity has achieved very good results.
4. Painting method
Sometimes in music game activities, children can boldly imagine the music played and use paintbrushes to express the color and inner emotions of the music. For example, "What color is the music you heard?" "What color is the cheerful music? What does it look like?" "What color is sadness?" "Can you draw your unhappiness?" with For these problems, children use the colored pens in their hands to record different music on paper, which often produces unexpected results.
5. Language description method
This is a method that many teachers will use. After listening to a piece of music, many teachers will ask "What did you think after listening to this piece of music?" How do you feel?" The purpose of this is to understand how children feel about music through verbal description.
However, in actual teaching, children often cannot describe accurately due to limitations in vocabulary and expression ability. If the teacher's guidance is lacking, it will be difficult to achieve the desired effect. It is good for children to use words to describe the feelings that music brings to them. A more difficult thing. Therefore, you may want to let children make up stories about music during activities. In order to avoid going off topic, you can make up phrases one by one, focusing on using the different atmospheres brought by different rhythms to let children imagine a scene; different timbres can represent different roles. The change of melody can be imagined as the content of the story, and the strong and weak beats indicate the appearance of different characters. A piece of music can allow multiple children to participate at the same time and experience the fun of imagination and the joy of expression.
In short, a music appreciation activity requires the use of a variety of teaching methods to achieve good results. Teachers should appropriately combine the above methods to allow children to enrich their feelings about music based on their limited experience. Make music appreciation activities a relaxing, enjoyable and interesting art activity that children love.