Music is an art form that is most closely related to human life. Feeling music is the innate potential of people. Letting children experience happiness should be the first precious gift that music brings to children. Experiencing and learning in music activities and free emotions is of great significance to children's character, personality development and physical and mental health.
In a harmonious and happy environment, music can help children grow up healthily and confidently and let them have a happy childhood. The "cultivating interest" mentioned here refers not only to the interest in music, but also to the interest in everything in the world and the attitude of yearning, appreciation and acceptance. This kind of happiness and interest will make a good start for the beginning of life.
Music can help children develop their self-confidence, overcome their nervousness and restraint, become brave in expressing themselves, be good at communicating with others, have self-restraint ability and collective consciousness, have the mentality of discovering, appreciating and praising all beautiful things, and gradually form a positive and optimistic attitude towards life. It should be said that art education can harmoniously integrate many aspects of human growth and play an important role.
2. Music education can develop children's emotion and aesthetic feeling, and increase the happiness index of life.
In the art world, music is the art that is best at expressing and stimulating emotions. The special power of music is mainly manifested in its influence on emotion. Music can make children excited, happy physically and mentally, and can also calm children, eliminate tension and achieve emotional balance. Through extensive exposure to music that expresses different emotions and contents, children's emotional world will gradually enrich and enrich. In games and performances, children experience and learn emotional expression, and are psychologically happy and satisfied. Friendship with peers and interest in group activities in games and performances have deepened children's musical aesthetic feelings.
3. Music education can develop children's perceptual ability and promote the development of cognitive ability.
Perceptual ability is the basis for children to know the world, develop intelligence and carry out creative activities. Children's music learning does not need to know words and symbols first, but to mobilize a variety of sensory participation, through sensory learning.
The discrimination of musical elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics and timbre, and the perception of musical sentence patterns and structures will improve children's auditory sensitivity, selectivity and overall sensitivity to music. Music learning is not just about ears and fingers, it will cause the whole body to react. With the singing and performing activities of rhythm, dance and musical instruments, children's ears, eyes, brain and limbs are required to coordinate their actions, which can cultivate children's keen sense, improve the flexibility of brain reaction and promote the cultivation of imagination, intuition, inspiration and epiphany needed in the process of scientific and artistic creation.
Music art, like other arts, has vivid characteristics, is a vivid language and expression, which accords with the vivid characteristics of children's thinking. But the most important notes in music are invisible, intangible and abstract. The level of sound, the length of time, the beginning and end of music, the relationship between time and space, etc. It is also meaningful to cultivate children's visual and abstract thinking.
Music, as a constantly changing dynamic form and fleeting time art, needs the attention of the appreciator. Music appreciation and performance activities can exercise children's attention stability and attention distribution. In singing activities, we should not only control our own vocalization, so that the pitch and rhythm of our own voice are coordinated and unified, but also listen to other voices and cooperate with them, and pay attention to the gestures and requirements of the conductor. In appreciation activities, we should not only listen to music, but also improvise actions; Not only to hear the main melody, but also to pay attention to other parts ... these have exercised children's attention distribution ability, otherwise, they will not fully understand the richness and multi-level of music works.
The image of music is gradually revealed in the process of sound movement. In the practice of appreciation, performance and singing, it is necessary to comprehensively use image memory, emotional memory and sports memory to grasp the whole picture of music. Music activities can develop children's memory agility, durability and accuracy. Children's perception and cognitive ability gained from music learning will be transferred to other learning fields.
Children's participation, exploration, performance and hands-on practice in music activities give them the opportunity to create and test their artistic imagination.
Creativity is the most essential embodiment of human nature. Children have creative potential before they learn. When children want to express themselves, creative growth begins.
Children's humming or performance may be naive or even impossible to repeat, but it is a valuable creative activity and an attempt by children to change and reorganize what they have already perceived.
There is no right or wrong in children's creative activities in music, and it will not cause them frustration. This kind of attempt can make them experience the joy of discovery and success, express their originality and personality, and enrich their experience, which is the most valuable and meaningful part of art education. Music education should attach importance to the influence of the creative process on children and the feelings and experiences brought by aesthetic experience, rather than excessively pursuing finished products.
Children who can express themselves freely and flexibly and fully vent their emotions through creative activities can easily get rid of psychological pressure, gain emotional freedom and adaptability, and often face new situations and new environments bravely. And this adaptability will bring them lifelong happiness, self-confidence and success, and promote the healthy growth of personality. At the same time, the stimulation of creativity, thinking mode and experience in music activities will transfer and stimulate the development of creativity in other aspects.
Music education plays a positive role in cultivating children's cooperative spirit and interpersonal skills.
An important role of artistic activities is to develop interpersonal communication means and make people's hearts communicate more. Music education can cultivate children's self-control, cooperative communication and good social character. The internal beat and rhythm of music, the arrangement of parts in ensemble, the arrangement of movements in rhythm and dance, the requirements to be observed in music games, etc. Let children form the habit of consciously obeying the rules in a pleasant and "not forced" form, and cultivate self-discipline and self-motivation.
In these activities, children experience the joy of collective creation, learn the form of nonverbal communication with others, learn to understand, care and cooperate, learn to accept and appreciate others, promote children's social development, and cultivate healthy personality and psychological quality. By experiencing and learning music that expresses different emotions, children's emotional world will gradually enrich and deepen. They naturally experience and learn emotional expression in game activities and role-playing activities.
In children's life, music has the function of regulating emotions; It can help children learn to concentrate and exercise their keen reaction ability; Rhythm and repetitive rhythm in music will bring beauty and order; Enhance children's creative consciousness in unrestrained and free exploration; Music games can be a link for children and adults to communicate and learn together, and all family members can share happiness in a musical atmosphere.
6. Cultivate children's basic musical ability through music learning.
Cultivating and developing children's basic musical ability is the inherent function of music education. Childhood is the most rapid development period of various senses, and it is also the most important period of listening training. Music education is directly influenced by age, environment and educational methods. It is hard to make up for missing a good education in this precious period.
Music learning in kindergarten is a stage of image development. Experiencing musical elements through various senses, forming experience through experience and reaching knowledge through exercise are all in line with children's active nature and adapt to children's psychological and ability development.
Children's musical activities are a comprehensive form of talking, singing, playing and dancing, which is also in line with the characteristics that children's feelings are integrated rather than divided. The accumulation of tones acquired by the mother tongue of music in early childhood is of far-reaching significance for inheriting the cultural tradition of national music and developing the ability of music creation. The interest, attitude and musical ability formed at this stage will lay the foundation for the artistic growth of children throughout their lives.
Every child has curiosity about new things, keen reaction and spirit of exploration, nature of loving beautiful things, and potential of learning art. Art education should be geared to all children and respect their different potentials, individual differences and willingness to express freely. They have the right to better develop their artistic ability. Although we say that every child has an innate sense of sound, it is not the ability of music. The ability of music needs to be gradually cultivated in a carefully cultivated music environment.
Music education in kindergartens is not for music performances, for a few people, for skilled skills and perfect results, or for spending precious childhood on heavy technical exercises, but for cultivating children's emotions, imagination, creativity and personality. The most important thing is to arouse children's interest, inspire them to participate actively, and gain experience and discovery.
We should understand the characteristics of children's physical and mental development and the law of music art learning through the discussion of children's music education objectives and teaching strategies, so as to promote the integration of contemporary educational concepts into music education practice and make music education play its due and important role in children's growth.
Kodaly, a famous Hungarian music educator, said: "Music is spiritual food that nothing else can replace. People who can't get it can only live in mental anemia Without music, there is no sound spiritual life. " Children are most likely to resonate with the truth, goodness, beauty and rich emotions contained in art. Valuable and appropriate art is the nutrient of children's pure and kind mind and plays an important role in perfecting the cultivation of personality.
We need to mobilize the participation of multiple senses, provide dynamic sensory stimulation for children, and explore effective ways for multiple senses to participate in learning, so that children can gain perception through experience when multiple senses are fully mobilized. It is also necessary to improve children's practical ability in a leisurely process.
We should not only provide children with a free and inclusive learning atmosphere, but also develop a good order, so that children can gradually understand how to sort out, arrange, summarize and classify things that happen around them, feel neatness, discipline and beauty, and then understand that music can express the meaning of freedom through strict "order" such as internal rhythm and beat.
We should not only encourage children to improvise and develop their creative ability, but also understand that it is necessary to repeat their learning and cognition. Repeated practice is an important learning method for children. They need to have enough repeated exercises to enhance their memory, form their experience ability and experience happiness in activities they are familiar with. New learning and ability are developed on the basis of existing experience. Once children are familiar with an activity, they will constantly challenge themselves, explore new methods and means, and try to apply these newly discovered skills to other situations. This is the gradual expansion of capabilities. Therefore, it is important to keep a balance between repetition and the challenge of new things.