Music, as an important field of humanities, cannot and cannot avoid the multicultural perspective. The "western music-centered theory" is gone forever, and the era that music education takes popularizing "western music theory" as the primary task and taking "western music theory" as the touchstone of beauty and ugliness has become a thing of the past.

Music education in 2 1 century should strive to open up multicultural "vision" for the educated and cultivate multicultural "hearing". With the decline of epistemology from the perspective of universalism philosophy, the corresponding epistemology of "music aesthetics" will fail, and it will never become the key to understanding multicultural music.

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The judgment of the whole society on the functional value of basic music education is closely related to the curriculum setting in normal universities. The talents trained by normal colleges will be teachers of basic education in the future, and their music knowledge and values will directly affect the next generation of the motherland. The first significance of adding the course of "Foreign National Music" is to open a dimension for future music educators to examine music culture.

For example, the new vision of ethnomusicology makes students clearly realize that the traditional research method based on "works" in the study of western music history cannot cover all musical phenomena, such as folk ritual music, improvisational music represented by Indian Lager and markham in Arabic music system.