First, an overview of early childhood piano enlightenment education
(A) the meaning of enlightenment education
Enlightenment education means that when some people who don't understand the new theory, especially children, don't have the ability to verify scientific knowledge, they can only simply remember the results and apply scientific knowledge. This kind of educational method that ignores the process of proof is called enlightenment education. The common reasoning method of enlightenment education is to explain the truth with some similar common sense known by the enlightener, rather than telling the process of scientific proof.
(B) the significance of piano education
Piano education is to make people know and improve their feelings and understanding of beauty, stimulate their basic understanding and positive interest in piano, and cultivate their playing ability and expressive force. Piano education is not only to let people know black and white keys's composition, but also to learn the most basic knowledge of music theory, such as staff, interval structure, scales, notes, rests and so on. Piano education requires children to master basic knowledge and develop their own musical expression on this basis.
(C) the best age for children's piano enlightenment
Many researchers believe that learning piano should start with children, and the earlier you know and learn piano, the better. Professional art educators believe that playing the piano is a very small muscle movement, which requires skilled hand-eye coordination, coordination of knuckles, elbows and forearms, upper limbs and lower limbs, fingers and keyboards, and body and keyboards, all of which test a player's physical coordination and patience. Beginners need repeated finger exercises and various etudes to achieve a solid foundation, which requires learners to spend some time practicing every day. According to the growth and development of young children, we know that in the process of developing large muscle activities first and then developing fine small muscles, younger children will be unable to sit still because of their own reasons, such as poor coordination, impatience and inattention. Sending them to learn the piano at this time will not achieve the expected effect. The reasonable and effective age of learning piano should be between 3 and 7 years old. At this age, children's finger joints are more flexible, and the activities of big muscles and small muscles have also developed to some extent. After a long period of practice, muscle memory will be formed, which will lay a good foundation for more professional piano learning in the future.
Second, the importance of piano enlightenment education
(A) the impact of piano on children's aesthetic ability
People's aesthetic ability includes the comprehensive judgment ability of psychological activities such as perception, understanding, imagination, emotion, association and expression. Through piano enlightenment education, children can improve their musical aesthetic ability and finally get comprehensive and coordinated development. Children's aesthetic ability is of great significance to the performance of works and performing arts. Playing piano works can not only show their solid basic skills, but also show the player's personal musical literacy and understanding of music. It is necessary to establish a basic concept with artistic aesthetics as the core, and to run through the whole process of music education, so as to cultivate children's beautiful sentiments and sound personality imperceptibly.
(B) the impact of piano on children's cultural literacy
Socrates once said: "Music is the best means of education, because rhythm and harmony can be deeply rooted in people's hearts and give people courtesy and elegance". Piano education has played a very good role in cultivating children's thinking ability and creativity. As a natural cultural product, people are the creators and creators of culture, that is to say, people influenced by music can have certain creative ability and profound cultural accomplishment. Cultural literacy refers to a series of attitudes and abilities to treat people naturally and acquired. Children receive good music education from childhood, which can effectively promote the improvement of children's music literacy and artistic accomplishment, and also cultivate children's serious and down-to-earth study habits. Throughout history, people of insight can appreciate the great influence of music on individuals and society. Confucius, a great thinker and educator in ancient China, put forward the curriculum content of "Six Arts", namely, ceremony, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and teaching. China had music education in ancient times. With the support, encouragement and promotion of the supreme ruler at that time, Duke Zhou's "ritual and music system" developed a harmonious social environment with culture, etiquette and self-restraint.
(C) the impact of piano on children's intellectual development
Biologists' research shows that human brain is divided into two parts: left brain and right brain. The left brain has the ability of logical thinking such as geography and mathematics, and belongs to rational thinking. The right brain controls emotions and has the ability of thinking in images such as music and literature, which belongs to perceptual thinking. Throughout human life, the left brain has been in a state of operation, while the right brain has not been effectively developed and utilized, and most of them belong to undeveloped fields. Learning music can just make up for this. Good music training can effectively promote the activity of the right brain, strengthen the function of the brain, and make the brain develop in a balanced way. This is the theoretical basis of the so-called "music can develop intelligence". 2 1 century, mankind is in an era of global competition and drastic changes. The rapid development of economy and society and the surge of knowledge constantly put forward new requirements for people's comprehensive quality. Therefore, in the process of continuous learning and growth, in the process of constantly facing challenges and pressures, IQ plays a fundamental role. Piano art can not only cultivate sentiment, but also effectively promote the development of intelligence. From this perspective, the piano, as a musical instrument, plays an important role in early childhood education. With China's continuous support for the tertiary industry and emphasis on the cultural industry, I believe that the piano enlightenment education will continue to develop and go further and further on the road of education.