There are a large number of different genres of music works with the theme of the moon in music creation at all times and in all countries. These works are usually lyrical and imaginative. The songs selected in this unit, Hometown of the Moon, Curved Moon and Moonlit Night, all belong to this kind of works. Among them, the theme of "the hometown of the moon" has a strong sense of the times and expresses the common desire of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait for reunion. The Curved Moon is a popular song in recent years. Its melody is lyrical and smooth, and its rhythm stretches freely. Moonlit Night is a German classical art song, which embodies the artistic characteristics of the trinity of poetry, melody and accompaniment. They are all lyric songs, but their styles are different. Two Springs Reflect the Moon, Moon Height and Full Moon Flower are representative works that express the theme of the moon in the form of instrumental music.
"Two Springs Reflect on the Moon" was originally an erhu solo, and was later adapted into erhu and band, string ensemble, cappella, violin and pipa duet and other performance forms. In this unit, the string ensemble adapted by Wu Zuqiang is selected, and some examples of ensemble music score are selected as the teaching material, so that students can subtly understand the common sense about music score. Yuergao is a pipa solo, and Hua Manyue is a folk music ensemble, both of which have their own emphasis on musical emotion.
Unit 2 Rap the World
This unit is similar to the second volume of the eighth grade, "Picking English from the Pear Garden". By selecting more representative works, accompanied by clear performance stills and concise text explanations, the basic characteristics of representative rap songs are displayed, so that students can appreciate the charm of rap art, which is also a treasure of national music culture, in a better way in class.
The art of rap is a trinity art of speaking, singing and expressing. Full of strong local color, closely combined with language. Performers with simple musical instruments or narration or endorsement have a strong appeal. This unit guides students to appreciate the representative aria, so that they can understand several influential rap art forms, such as Jing Yun drum, string playing, pingtan and Yin Qing. The textbook provides more text explanations in the form of a knowledge board, so that students can experience it by reading it by themselves and combining the audio and pictures they have heard. Textbooks do not advocate asking too much of students in teaching, so as to dispel the doubts of teachers and students in some areas. All regions and ethnic groups in China are rich in folk rap art resources. When implementing teaching activities, teachers and students can extensively explore and make use of the excellent cultural treasures of their own region and nation, so as to expand the limitations of this set of teaching materials due to space restrictions and make maximum use of teaching materials and living teaching materials when facing a large scale in the country.
In the "Music Activities" after class in this unit, the "Rap" practice of singing "Rebuilding Rivers and Mountains for Teenagers" while playing drums is designed, and two exercises are also designed to help students pay attention to characteristic musical instruments and local dialects and review and summarize classroom teaching contents.
Unit 3 Western Music Dialogue
One of the characteristics of this set of teaching materials is that it breaks the selection mode centered on the European professional music system and adds Chinese and foreign folk music, Chinese and foreign modern creative music, Chinese and foreign modern pop music and light music. But this textbook does not simply go from one extreme to the other. This unit introduces the representative writers and works in the European professional music creation system from Bach to Stravinsky for more than 300 years according to the historical year by means of concentrated learning.
In Bach's "Aria on G String", the practice of letting students write "music description" is arranged, aiming at cultivating students to express their understanding and perception of music in words while feeling music; In Hallelujah, the key point is to let students perceive the style of baroque music; In "Symphony of Astonishment" and "Happy Peasant Association", the emphasis is to help students understand the tonal conversion characteristics of classical symphony works and represent the composer's personal creative style; The practice of setting after string serenade in G major aims to guide students to understand the concept of chord. Although it is not explicitly mentioned in the textbook, students can easily master the master-slave relationship between tradition and acoustics by listening to music. There are many decorative sounds in Schubert's Moment of Music. This song is to let students feel the role of decorative sounds in expressing musical emotions. After listening to the March in Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, students are given a small exercise to review the timbre of musical instruments. In Slavic dance, students can master the basic feeling of singing accurate auxiliary sounds by reciting the main theme. In "The Bell of Leaves in the Woods" and "Russian Dance Music", students are exposed to the acoustic characteristics of comprehensive impressionist music and rough modern music works respectively ... As can be seen from the above introduction, the choice of each work has clear goals and requirements. These works selected in this unit not only help students systematically understand the development of European music, but also explain the basic theoretical knowledge of music that was previously regarded as difficult by teachers and students through distinctive works, which reduces the learning difficulty and provides effective methods for teachers and students' teaching.
This unit echoes the self-contained "Chinese Ancient Rhyme" in the second volume of Grade 7, and briefly shows the basic situation of the development of ancient music at home and abroad.
Unit 4 The Land of China (5)── Seaside Poetry
The four music works selected in this unit, Wave of Gulangyu Island, Xisha, Lovely Hometown, Sea, Hometown and Poems by the Sea, show the creative feelings brought to composers by the coastal areas of China, Wan Li. These music works are mainly lyrical, with different themes. Three of them express their feelings in the first person. The first unit "Waves on Gulangyu Island" and "Hometown of the Moon" have similar themes, expressing sincere yearning for Taiwan Province Province and reflecting the strong desire of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait for the reunification of the motherland. Xisha, a lovely hometown, enthusiastically praises the beautiful Xisha Islands in the South China Sea. "Sea, Hometown" has a kind and natural tone, and is eloquent and affectionate among phrases. Although written in 1962, the violin solo poem by the sea is still full of charm in the shaping of musical image and the expression of musical emotion, and it is a more suitable appreciation material for junior middle school students today. In addition, from the creative background, the sea represented by different works implies regional differences, which helps students to organically link and synthesize music and geography.
Unit 5 Travel Around the World (5)── A glimpse of North America
This unit shows several representative national folk music in North American music cultural circle, involving Canada, the United States, Greenland and other countries and regions. In the overall design, the style of the first four "global tour" units is maintained, and the focus is on providing materials with distinctive regional characteristics for teachers and students to browse. Through the introduction of the works in the second part, we can truly feel the background and unique charm of these works.
Unit 6 Winter Travel
This unit is the last chapter of the theme of "Four Seasons". Combined with the seasonal characteristics of winter, provide students with songs that can be sung, enjoyed and performed by music. Among them, Huang Zi's "Walking through the Snow in Xun Mei" adopts two chorus forms to help students accumulate experience in singing multi-part music works.