Music is the crystallization of human creativity and imagination, music activities are the spiritual needs of human beings beyond material life, and music practitioners are creators with special talents and emotional willpower, so the cultivation of music talents needs special atmosphere and environment. Over the years, the Central Conservatory of Music has gradually formed its own school-running philosophy in the process of exploring the law of music talent training. This idea is to create an open, imaginative and creative academic atmosphere and a diverse, advanced and dynamic artistic environment in the school.
Schools should first consider offering some courses that can open students' minds besides some "boring" courses surrounded by traditional theories. Undoubtedly, the contents of these traditional historical theory courses and music technology theory courses need to be mastered and understood by students in the Conservatory of Music, and teachers can also arouse students' interest by improving teaching methods and teaching contents. But the nature of these courses will still imprison students' imagination. For example, the strict rules of traditional harmony and insurmountable problem-solving norms will not only make students feel bored, but also limit their imagination. The content of these courses and the rules required in the courses are of course the knowledge and skills that students need to learn, but it is more important to combine these rules with art and extend them to modern science and technology, so that students can understand the traditional composition techniques with a broader vision and open up the imagination space. Therefore, schools need to offer some courses and history extension courses for students to discuss freely. The course of a conservatory of music usually consists of three parts: the first part is a professional course, which is an unshakable course content. In addition to teaching students professional skills, it is more important for teachers to make students have enough ability to fully grasp the connotation and style of works and form self-awareness of the connotation and style of works. The second part is professional basic courses, including composition theory course and music history course. These courses need to be constantly updated with the development of music art, that is, they need to keep pace with the times. This is also an important symbol to distinguish the teaching level of conservatory of music. In a good conservatory of music, teachers who undertake this course will certainly teach students the latest knowledge and cutting-edge theories, so that students can understand the current music culture trends and make their own latest judgments in the process of professional study. The third part is the general basic course, which is mainly to improve students' cultural literacy, usually focusing on humanities and social sciences and related disciplines. How to choose this course is also a reflection of the level of the curriculum of the Conservatory of Music. This kind of course should provide more content, which can give students a fresh look or give them full imagination. This requires teachers to have enough knowledge accumulation and broad academic vision.
Secondly, schools should create an open and diverse artistic environment for students. This is mainly achieved by organizing various musical academic activities, including academic lectures, various music festivals, such as wind music festival, chamber music festival, modern music festival, and various master classes (composition, piano, violin, cello, etc. ). Let students judge and think independently when participating in different academic activities. A high-level conservatory of music must have many academic activities outside the course. Holding these academic activities, on the one hand, can open the door of the school and let many music experts outside the school participate in the school activities. They can hold master classes, academic reports and music festivals, which can bring a lot of fresh academic atmosphere to the college. On the other hand, it can give students more practical opportunities. Students participating in music festival performances and organizing activities will undoubtedly be of great benefit to improving their stage practice ability and social activity ability.
Thirdly, in addition to holding various academic activities, the school should also create a large number of practical opportunities for students outside the school to improve their professional level in creation, performance, research and evaluation. Students should be the main body of the school, and a lively academic atmosphere and artistic environment should be created. On the one hand, schools should regularly organize students' designated practice activities, such as establishing designated off-campus practice bases, including professional literary and art groups and local cultural institutions, and regularly send students to these practice bases for internships and performances. The Central Conservatory of Music has established practice bases in Beijing's literary and art groups and music venues, such as the Central Opera House and Zhongshan Concert Hall, and has also established artistic practice bases with local cultural institutions all over the country to improve students' performance ability through off-campus practice. On the other hand, the school should create opportunities for students to exchange performances at home and abroad, and help students step onto the art stage in advance. For example, participate in local, foreign, local or national cultural activities, including creation, performance and criticism; Help students to participate in international performance exchanges, or cultural festivals, music festivals, or national foreign exchange performances. In this way, students can achieve something in their student days and begin to face the society and the public. At the same time, schools should pay full attention to the construction of student associations, and realize the concept of student autonomy and student-led running schools through student associations. Schools should support the creative activities of student associations, protect and give full play to students' imagination, and make these creative and imaginative community activities an important part of creating an academic environment in schools.
Second, establish scientific training methods.
The training methods of music talents are different from ordinary talents. It needs to identify, guide and cultivate music talents, and at the same time, it must put students' talents into practice in order to fully participate in music creation, performance, research and evaluation. Over the years, the Central Conservatory of Music has gradually formed its own training approach in the process of exploring the training law of music talents. This approach is to fully grasp the link of talent identification, attach importance to early talent guidance and skill training, adhere to the infiltration of artistic and cultural literacy, cultivate high-standard artistic and academic vision, advocate extensive artistic practice, and encourage students to make achievements in the times.
The most important thing in the teaching of Conservatory of Music is to identify talents. The success of music college students depends on their own talent first. Teachers' teaching ability is largely reflected in the recognition of students' talents. How to do a good job in selecting materials in enrollment is the first important link in school teaching. A high-level conservatory of music must take talent selection as the top priority of the school. In talent identification, we need to start from two aspects: on the one hand, we need to identify candidates from their current professional ability. The identification work in this area is relatively easy and it is also a routine inspection method. On the other hand, it is necessary to predict the talents and future development prospects of candidates, which is the key link in talent identification, but it is often not easy to master and is often ignored.
The skill training of music performance major must be completed in primary and secondary schools, and the internship after college is only to consolidate the technology. Although vocal performance is a little special because of the change of voice from small to large, early education is still very important (piano and solfeggio are very important for students studying vocal music). Therefore, attaching importance to the early education of music performance specialty is one of the important ways to cultivate music talents. People's musical talent often appears in childhood, which is mainly reflected in the sensitivity of hearing and the adaptability of function. Hearing acuity is often related to hearing inheritance and early listening acceptance. The former is a congenital hearing condition, which depends on parents' hearing genes. The latter is acquired experience, depending on the auditory environment in which children grow up. For example, children's early hearing training with musical instruments with fixed pitch (such as piano) often forms their hearing ability with fixed pitch. Functional adaptability mainly refers to the functional conditions that children need when they engage in music activities. For example, the condition of fingers is very important for playing the piano, the condition of mouth shape is very important for playing musical instruments, and the condition of vocal cords is the decisive factor for the success of singers. These congenital or acquired musical conditions need early training and develop with the growth of children's age. Their hearing acuity can only be deepened through early training, and their functional adaptability can only be enhanced through training. In addition to vocal music major (based on mature vocal cords), other performance majors, especially stringed instrument performance, need early training. Therefore, the major of instrumental music performance should attach importance to early training and carry out systematic professional training from the beginning of children. This is the law of cultivating talents in music art, and it is also the training link that professional music education must pay attention to.
It is also important for students to accept a high standard of artistic edification. We should constantly improve students' artistic taste, guide them to a higher artistic realm, and always keep the enterprising spirit. The artistic edification of students is not only a high-standard and high-level artistic edification, but also an important link in cultivating talents in the Conservatory of Music. Students' musical taste and artistic style determine whether a student can develop in the right direction and eventually become a real artist. Of course, students need to experience the feelings of various forms of music, whether it is classical music, modern music, folk music or pop music, they should all accept it. Only after experiencing the feelings of various styles and forms of music can we make a choice. However, as a school, we should ensure that a certain number of classical works with high artistic level are instilled in students in various musical styles, and that a certain number of works with high musical taste and artistic style are maintained in the accumulation of students' hearing. This kind of high-style cultivation also includes creating conditions for students to feel the elegance of masters, and schools should try their best to provide students with opportunities to face masters.
Encouraging students to make achievements in their student days is also one of the school-running concepts of high-level conservatories. Judging from the law of music success, students majoring in instrumental performance have already had strong stage performance ability in middle school. At this time, the school needs to provide them with various performance opportunities, show their abilities, and establish self-confidence in artistic performance. Many students already have the international competitiveness of music performance in middle school or junior college, which also requires schools to provide them with opportunities for various music competitions. Students majoring in composition usually produce results at the university level. Students in this period are the most creative and imaginative. Especially for those gifted students, we should fully protect their creativity and imaginative creative enthusiasm, encourage them to actively create, create various creative opportunities for them, and support them to participate in various composition competitions and social creative activities. Students majoring in musicology need to temper their academic will and accumulate rich academic experience, including music knowledge related to humanities such as history and aesthetics, and also need to accumulate musical aesthetic experience. Musicology was formed in senior year and postgraduate stage. Therefore, as a music education institution, the Conservatory of Music should fully consider the laws of different majors when designing the road for students to become talents.
Third, the pursuit of artistic management system.
The management mode of the Conservatory of Music should also follow the law of cultivating artistic talents. The Central Conservatory of Music advocates relaxed interpersonal relationship and strict management system in management, striving for simplicity and humanization. At the same time, it can deal with special issues in the management of special talents.
First of all, we should establish a set of management system that conforms to the law of running a conservatory of music. Without the system, it is impossible for an institution of higher learning to run well. However, if some systems restrict artistic innovation and students' creativity, it will inevitably bring harm to personnel training and the overall running of the school and must be resolutely corrected. Therefore, a good system must be based on academic development and artistic innovation.
Secondly, this system should also be based on complete humanization. If some systems restrict the freedom of teachers and students, or affect their development outside of teaching and learning, they must also be improved. Art should be based on fully relaxed interpersonal relationships. The humanization of management system is beneficial to the mental health of people who study and work in music. Healthy psychology is the source of artistic creation, and fully respecting people's personality development is the key to artistic creation. When the school formulates the regulations on the management of teachers and students, on the one hand, it should have clear basic requirements for teachers and students, that is, teachers and students should strictly fulfill the basic requirements of teaching and learning. This is mainly reflected in the attitude of teachers and students to lectures. This attitude is not only manifested in the form, such as the time of class, the attitude of communication between the two sides, but also in the content, such as the teacher's preparation of lessons, the cutting-edge thinking of the course content, and the students' initiative in attending classes. At the same time, teachers and students should be unconditionally required to strictly abide by a series of rules and regulations formulated by the school, such as smoking ban system, classroom management system, examination system and financial system. On the other hand, in addition to formulating these rigid systems, schools should also consider giving teachers and students enough space.
School management, institutions and institutions, teachers and teachers should communicate in an equal and mutually beneficial relationship. In short, we should have a relaxed interpersonal relationship. In addition, schools should have special management methods to treat special talents and not bury them. The Central Conservatory of Music is currently implementing the "Top-notch Innovative Talents Training Plan" (also known as the "Bob Plan", which is the abbreviation of Best of best). As a major project of the national education system reform, the plan takes the cultivation of first-class music talents at home and abroad as its core task. After the selection, a new teaching management system will be established for the selected students, and new ideas for cultivating outstanding music talents will be explored through special fund support and innovative training mode.