Music education is the main content and way to implement aesthetic education in schools. On the one hand, aesthetic education is the core content of art, on the other hand, it is determined by the essential characteristics of art. ..

Judging from the educational content, no matter what kind of art education, it basically contains the common content of cultivating people's ability to feel beauty, appreciate beauty and create beauty. Music education takes sound as a means of expression and constructs a dynamic aesthetic form.

Cultivate the ability of the educated to feel, understand, appreciate, express and create music, and complete the aesthetic education for students. Aesthetic education has rich connotations, such as ideal shaping and emotional control, rational guidance and adjustment of will, rational infiltration and sublimation of perception and imagination, so as to achieve a perfect aesthetic psychological structure.

The importance of music education is reflected in the following aspects:

First, music education is an important part of cultivating creativity.

Improving students' innovative ability is one of the important goals of current educational reform. Innovation needs imagination, and music can open the imagination space and give people infinite reverie, which can not only cultivate people's imagination and creativity, but also enlighten wisdom, release the mind, make people happy physically and mentally, and make the brain in a more creative state.

Secondly, music education and moral education complement each other.

Art education, moral education and other educational awareness can help students form a healthy and upward emotional awareness, so that students have sympathy and empathy for beauty and goodness. On the one hand, strengthening music training can promote students' all-round and harmonious development of body and mind and improve their comprehensive ability, on the other hand, it can promote students to form a perfect personality, which complements ideological and moral education.

Third, music education is conducive to improving students' aesthetic ability.

Aesthetic ability is one of the important abilities in comprehensive quality and humanistic quality, and music appreciation is one of the important ways of art appreciation. When students appreciate music, their emotions can be effectively expressed and sublimated, and they can experience different artistic beauty from music, which plays a significant role in improving their aesthetic ability.