As an important field of humanities, music cannot and cannot avoid the multicultural perspective. Gone are the days when “Western music-centrism” was the primary task of music education and the popularization of “Western music theory” was the primary task, and “Western music theory” was used as a touchstone of beauty and non-beauty.

Music education in the 21st century should strive to open up the multicultural "vision" and cultivate the multicultural "hearing" for the educated. The epistemology under the perspective of universalist philosophy has declined, and the corresponding "music aesthetic" epistemology will also fail. It will never be the key to understanding diverse music cultures.

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The entire society’s functional value judgment of basic music education is closely related to the curriculum of normal colleges. The talents cultivated by normal colleges will serve as teachers of basic education in the future. The music they master The knowledge and values ??of music education will directly affect the next generation of the motherland. The primary significance of adding the "Foreign Ethnic Music" course is to open up a dimension for future music educators to examine music culture.

For example, the new perspective of ethnomusicology makes students clearly realize that the usual research method of "work" as a unit in the study of Western music history cannot cover all musical phenomena, such as folk ritual music. , improvisational music based on specific patterns represented by Indian raga and maqam in the Arabic music system.