In the process of implementing the new curriculum plan, music courses, as an integral part of basic education and a compulsory subject, have achieved good development over the years. The National Ministry of Education in the "General High School Music Curriculum Standards" It is clearly pointed out that general high school music courses are an important way to implement aesthetic education in high schools. It is a compulsory course for all students. High school music courses play an irreplaceable role in promoting students' comprehensive and individual development. This also reflects the guiding ideology of the "National Basic Education Curriculum Reform Guidance Outline", striving to be advanced and innovative based on carefully summarizing and fully absorbing domestic and foreign music education theory and practical experience, and striving to face the world based on China's educational development level. , laying a good foundation for the reform and development of basic music education in my country.
Music is one of the best ways to cultivate people's sentiments. It can purify the soul, inspire fighting spirit, and shorten the distance between people. On the contrary, the lack of musical literacy, just like the lack of certain important trace elements in the body, will hinder the improvement of overall quality. However, at present, the overall level of music quality of many students is not high, which is reflected in the following aspects:
1. Low music quality makes some students lack the ability to distinguish. China has a traditional aesthetic concept, which pits beauty against ugliness, good against evil. The same is true in art. The truth, goodness and beauty in art and their high degree of unity are often the highest standards for people to evaluate art. Students like pop music because its rhythm, melody and the randomness of singing are more suitable for the appreciation needs and characteristics of young people. The problem is that some songs with vulgar content and low style often give young people with strong curiosity an impulse with a novel appearance, causing them to no longer distinguish between the true, the good, the beautiful, the false, the evil and the ugly. They only vent their repression and emotions in singing, and gradually distort and alienate art into a tool that serves their own feelings, completely ignoring the impact on society.
2. Low musical literacy causes some students to be emotionally rough. The relationship between music and people's psychology and physiology is very close. Good music can soothe people's souls and inspire people's will; although poor music can satisfy people's emotional needs to a certain extent, it cannot improve people's artistic accomplishment and spiritual taste. On the contrary, it will make some students feel depressed and live a lax life. Emotionally volatile.
3. Some bad habits in life are closely related to low musical literacy. Elegant art can enhance people's spiritual realm, and people who lack musical literacy often lack a sense of beauty in their lives. For example, phenomena such as not paying attention to personal image, not turning off mobile phones in class, and living a disorganized life are unlikely to happen to people with elegant musical accomplishments.
The formulation of the new "Curriculum Standards" has also put forward higher requirements for our teachers. How can we truly implement the concepts and ideas of the "Curriculum Standards" into the curriculum so that students can truly Feel the change in concepts and the improvement in ability and quality brought about by the new curriculum. In view of the understanding of various phenomena, the author made the following summary of the discussion in teaching:
1. Correctly understand the teaching significance of music classes
First of all, music is the accumulation of inspiration , an art that stimulates emotions and activates imagination. Music is the second language of mankind and the closest friend of mankind. Music can open the hearts of students. Beautiful music not only delights the body and mind, but also purifies the souls of middle school students. Therefore, how to use the three functions of music education, aesthetics, and entertainment to subtly help students develop their ability to understand the world, encourage them to be polite, make their behavior noble, and effectively improve their musical literacy, all of which are beneficial to society. The purification of morals is conducive to the construction of a harmonious society.
Most of the traditional middle school music courses are set up as minor subjects. People first despise it ideologically and psychologically, and regard it as a condiment for the main course; students also regard taking music courses as a change of mood. ; Although the syllabus also stipulates that the middle school music curriculum is mainly about music reading, singing, instrumental music, etc., due to misunderstandings and deviations in the teaching of middle school music courses, some teachers only teach students to sing and not sing.
As an important way of aesthetic education, basic music education in middle schools is characterized by emotional aesthetics. Therefore, the important mechanism of music teaching is that emotional teachers face emotional students; I believe that the entire process of music education should be a conscious aesthetic process. This process should run through all aesthetic factors, and take the occurrence of aesthetic feeling as the fundamental content. In this way, in the long-term and multiple occurrence and development of aesthetic feelings, music education will affect students' emotional intentions and form aesthetic sentiments, thereby perfecting their personality. That is to say, only when students have a profound emotional experience of the perceived beauty, will they have a love for beauty. Only by linking the cultivation of students' feelings, understanding and imagination of music with music emotions can the meaning of music aesthetics be truly reflected. , in order to improve students’ musical literacy.
2. Carefully analyze the teaching materials and carefully design the teaching process
High school music teaching materials provide students with highly ideological and artistic music and art masterpieces, which are useful for educating students to enrich their emotions and cultivate their sentiments. It is of great significance to improve cultural literacy, enhance physical and mental health, and form a perfect personality.
[3] However, relatively speaking, students do not have much exposure to it. For example, classical music and romantic music are music from the 18th and 19th centuries. The music is far away from the students, so it is difficult for students to accept it. Therefore, teachers must study the teaching materials carefully, make careful arrangements, and strive to shorten the distance between the teaching content and the times. During the appreciation process, I used linguistic music teaching methods, namely lecture method, conversation method and student discussion method for classroom teaching and guidance. For example, in the appreciation of the lesson "Popular Style" in music appreciation, students are usually exposed to pop songs. How to guide students to correctly understand the phenomenon of a mixture of good and bad, and the coexistence of essence and dross in popular music and pop songs should be grasped. The focus of this lesson, so in this lesson, I designed a theme of sincere emotions - family love, with the beautiful and familiar song "Understanding You" introducing the theme of this lesson, and another classic old song "If the Wine Dry" "Selling Nothing" touched the hearts of the students, and the story in this song also made the students lament the love and affection in the world. The final climax was the song "Daybreak" by Han Hong, which burst out with the great father's love and mother's love. The power of the music shocked the students' hearts. What surprised me was how strong the children's emotions were. When the music slowly sounded, the students' eyes were red. Many students finished listening to the work with tears in their eyes. Not only I truly appreciated the musical works and also received a profound moral education. I think this is an effect that other courses cannot achieve.
3. Use cooperative teaching to strengthen students’ subjective imagination activities
The famous music educator Tao Xingzhi once said that “the condition for creativity to best develop is democracy.” It can be seen that teachers and students should be on equal footing in teaching activities. For the appreciation of a work of art, if the teacher's emotional experience is only told to the students, then the cultivation of students' aesthetic experience and emotional goals will be minimal. Cooperative teaching is an effective method that can fully mobilize students' enthusiasm and change the attitude of students who do not seek to understand the problem due to the teacher's remarks.
While enjoying the musical "Phantom of the Opera", I asked the students to look for background materials related to the story, and talk about their understanding and opinions of the work based on the relevant knowledge they knew. For example, some students talked about their views on the fate of the protagonist, some talked about their profile based on the characteristics of the music in the musical, some talked about the dance part, etc. At the same time, some students also put forward many valuable ideas. Questions, through mutual exchange and discussion, the students deepened their understanding of this work. On this basis, I led the students to enjoy the excerpts of "The Phantom of the Opera". During the appreciation, I constantly explained the characteristics and elements of the musical to guide the students to have an in-depth understanding of the work. Through such teaching activities, students' learning initiative is mobilized, and everyone actively obtains knowledge and solves problems through various channels, so that students can actively accept virtue education while experiencing the joy of success.
4. Improve the quality of music teachers and give play to the important role of music teachers
In a certain sense, a good teaching team is a good school. Paying attention to the continuous improvement of the quality of music teachers is of extremely important significance to music teaching and the comprehensive promotion of quality education.
First of all, we must effectively improve the basic moral quality of teachers, which is the basis and premise for the formation of teachers’ professionalism. Improving the basic moral quality of teachers is mainly to improve the social morality of teachers. If a teacher does not have Without the most basic moral quality, it is impossible to form good professional ethics and professionalism. Secondly, the professional ethics of music teachers must be effectively improved. Professionalism is a comprehensive expression of teachers' professional ethics, and good professional ethics is the fundamental guarantee for professionalism. Professional ethics quality mainly includes: belief, emotion, will and behavior. A person's professionalism is based on belief, emotion, and will, and is a comprehensive moral quality displayed in the process of professional ethical behavior. To improve the professional ethics of teachers, it is necessary to enable teachers to establish lofty professional beliefs and cultivate noble Moral sentiments, forming good professional ethics behavior habits, and transforming excellent moral qualities into powerful spiritual motivation and sources. Thirdly, music teachers themselves have high quality, have a good attitude in teaching, and have a beautiful teaching style, which will promote the healthy growth of students and beautify their souls.
5. Cultivate the humanistic spirit and improve students’ ability to feel, appreciate and create beauty in music
The humanistic spirit is a thought that pays attention to people and a pursuit of the true meaning of life. Rational attitude and humanistic spirit are the core contents of humanistic education. The modern curriculum concept advocates a student-centered educational idea, paying more attention to students' attitude towards life, their emotional intentions and value orientations towards people and things, as well as their tolerant and optimistic personality and sound personality.
Through various music practice activities, such as song performance and singing, music appreciation, learning and singing local music repertoire, etc., students’ musical literacy is continuously improved, and at the same time they gain the ability and health to feel, appreciate, and create beauty. aesthetic taste. In various music practice activities, teachers should combine different music repertoire to guide students to understand themselves and continuously develop themselves, so that students can understand the meaning of life, cherish life, and love life.
By creating a relaxed and democratic music education environment and learning atmosphere, it is conducive to students' active participation, forming humanistic qualities such as respect, care, friendliness, cooperation, and sharing, enriching students' emotional and spiritual pursuits, and promoting the perfection of personality and the harmonious development of body and mind. Improve students' creative abilities. Music is also a symbolic carrier of various cultures, recording and reproducing the development process of human culture and thought. Through the connection between music and culture, students can understand the cultural backgrounds of different regions and learn to respect multiculturalism. Music teachers must grasp the true connotation of quality education, with the purpose of popularizing basic knowledge of music and improving students' appreciation ability, and give full play to the positive role of music in the overall development of personality, so that students can form good humanistic accomplishments.
In short, music education in high schools is not optional, but urgent. Modern education increasingly requires lively, energetic, creative and entertaining forms of education. It is increasingly necessary to introduce music education into moral, intellectual, physical and labor education to complete the shaping of middle school students' personality. Paying attention to high school music education is the key to promoting the full, free and comprehensive development of students' overall quality. It is the key to realizing the modernization of education and cultivating talents for building a socialist harmonious society. Therefore, in high school music education, it is necessary to effectively improve students' musical literacy and achieve quality education.