To put it simply, the core goal of offering music performance piano teaching courses in higher music colleges is to train qualified piano teaching talents for music education; However, in the piano teaching course of music performance, more emphasis is placed on performance, and its purpose is to transport outstanding musical talents in all aspects for the society and the country. It can be seen that piano teaching in music education and piano teaching in music performance have completely different training objectives, so there must be many differences between them. As a starting point, the following will analyze the differences between piano teaching in music education and piano teaching in music performance.

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The following is a brief introduction of piano teaching in music education and piano teaching in music performance. Through several points, the two piano teaching courses are analyzed and discussed to find out the differences.

First, music education.

In general, school music education is often called music education, which is subdivided into special education and general education. Among them, the purpose of general education is mainly to improve students' music literacy after learning, while the purpose of special education is to learn music theory and skills, with a view to cultivating professionals with high music literacy and conducting in-depth research on music. The way for general education to achieve its educational goal is to express and appreciate, so that students can express their feelings and thoughts in an orderly way through music after learning, strengthen their musical consciousness through learning, and finally achieve the purpose of cultivating sentiment and enriching feelings, and understand the aesthetic value of music in the process of enjoying music, so as to have a higher level of pursuit. In this way, the appreciation and expression of music is fundamentally very personalized. Generally speaking, emotion, subjectivity, pleasure and visualization are the main characteristics of music education.

Second, music performance

Music performance is a kind of music creation activity, mainly through vocal singing and instrumental music performance, which expresses music through sound and conveys it to the audience, so as to maximize its social function. Music performance is between music creation and music appreciation, and its importance in music activities is very obvious. Piano teaching plays an important role in music performance. In the major of music performance in colleges and universities, piano teaching is a basic course to make full use of piano to realize music activities, but its significance and role are very significant. It can improve students' ability in pitch, reading music, rhythm and other aspects of music. At the same time, the music performance course is also very prominent in guiding students' artistic accomplishment, and it has a good training for students' music understanding ability, music expression ability, accompaniment cooperation ability and piano application ability. Music performance piano teaching is to enable students to have the ability of piano performance and music performance after systematic training in piano teaching, and to acquire and enrich their own music knowledge. Only in this way can we improve students' professional quality and ability, broaden their artistic horizons, improve their musical quality, and export high-quality and high-ability musical talents for the country.

Third, music education.

The difference between piano teaching and music performance piano teaching

(A) professional courses

Because of the different characteristics and goals of music education and music performance, their professional courses are also different. Music performance majors pay more attention to strengthening the skills of playing, accompaniment and ensemble, and cultivate students' creativity, ensemble ability and artistic expression ability; The focus of music education course is more education, which is essentially different from music performance. It emphasizes education, cultivates students' basic music theory and skills, and improves students' music education and music teaching ability.

(B) Teaching content

The teaching contents of piano courses and other theoretical courses for music education majors and music performance majors are different. There are two kinds of piano courses for music education majors: elective courses and compulsory courses. Compulsory courses are generally basic and all students have to learn, while elective courses are generally more difficult and difficult, and are generally provided to students with more learning needs. Generally speaking, students majoring in music performance have a high level of piano performance, so they can arrange the music library directly according to different grades, without learning the basic technical content of piano performance, while students majoring in piano education do.

(3) Teaching methods

In the teaching process of music performance major, teachers usually make teaching progress and plans according to the characteristics of the syllabus and students' specific conditions. By strengthening technical training, they pay attention to the teaching of music expression methods, playing skills and repertoire characteristics, and teach piano performance art to students. In the teaching process of music education major, teachers will make teaching methods and contents based on piano syllabus and supplemented by students' conditions and abilities, and pay more attention to the cultivation of students' performance, accompaniment and basic piano teaching ability, which runs through practice in teaching.

(4) Teaching methods

Music education major and music performance major have two teaching methods: piano teaching method and piano teaching theory course, and the teaching methods of theory course are the same. However, in piano teaching, music performance majors mainly adopt individualized teaching methods, and teachers generally train students one-on-one; Piano major in music education generally adopts two teaching methods, namely, individual teaching method and group class, in which individual teaching method is the same as music performance major, and group class teaching method is to group students according to their learning and professional level before teaching, mainly focusing on solving and analyzing some specific problems common to full-rent students.

Four. conclusion

Through the above analysis, it is concluded that the main purpose of piano teaching in music education is to cultivate high-quality educators with corresponding practical ability, innovative spirit and research ability in music education; The main purpose of music performance piano teaching is to export musical talents with rich musical literacy and quality and strong artistic practice ability for the country. Their purposes are very different, so there are great differences in the setting of professional courses, teaching contents, teaching methods and teaching means. Only by distinguishing the relationship and essence between them can we improve the teaching effect, adapt to the needs of society and cultivate outstanding talents.

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