Music is the earliest human history of the art form , is one of the most universal and appealing art forms. Explore the origins of the music , whether it is heterosexual courtship that witchcraft , or imitate that says so labor has a close relationship with humans . Music is an art of sound , but also an emotional art. Western contemporary aestheticians Susan Lange once said: " All art is created out of the performance of human emotion perception forms ." ① music as an art, is the first exhibit of its sound through the stereo melodies and rhythms to express its emotional . The so-called emotion, refers to human happiness, anger , sadness and joy , and other psychological forms . In music creation and music appreciation among affective always occupied an important position. Although it is not proprietary emotional music , but the music is particularly focused on the performance of the emotion. First, the music does not reproduce the real life material form , but the performance from which to experience emotions ; Second , the performance of the emotion in the music is abstract and direct ; Third, the music special way to express their feelings , but also with appreciation in music appreciation , the emotions rather than reason.
Music, and other educational , as in human learning life occupy an important position. "There are many examples show that for college students , no matter what field of study , in order to become a highly qualified intellectuals , they must accept a certain degree of arts education , with a certain artistic accomplishment ; To become a particular aspect of masters of the people , the more should be so . " ② If the famous scientist Qian once summed up the impact of his music : " Music and Arts in poetic and contains a deep understanding of life , enriched my understanding of the world , learned the art of broad thinking, or that are because I am influenced by these arts to be able to avoid obstinate , to avoid mechanical materialism , think the problem can be a little wider , live a little . "③ Hungary Kodaly music educator said:" Music for a person who is a an integral part of human beings , especially for children have a huge impact , to teach them how to recognize music , music, understand music , but also to teach them how to distinguish between good and bad music . " good music make people create the perfect personality , rich people's feelings , physical and mental development ; bad music was able to make people grumpy , physically and mentally can not get healthy development. On the one hand , through music education can change people's movement , physiology, thinking, enhance people deal with things , solve problems , develop human emotions and physical and mental health , body language , etc., have the function of educating people . On the other hand , music can cultivate children 's attention , coordination, enhance the child 's sense of collective responsibility , ability to cooperate and exchange capabilities . Emotional control of melody can cultivate people's sentiments ; music rhythm was able to cultivate children 's attention and physical coordination .
Smooth melody gives a stable , peaceful feeling , jumping undulating melody gives contradictory , dramatic feeling ; major and major chord gives a clear, firm and positive impression , etc. , minor and minor chord gives a soft, sad , fear and other impressions ; fast paced engender relaxed, happy , lively mood, slow paced engender sadness, fear and other feelings. Composer's creation is through these emotional characteristics are given different melody , harmony , color, modal tonality , rhythm, etc. to express , to convey their inner world , or the most abundant emotion, emotions ; the world works through listening , them to realize the beauty of the music , feel , understand and grasp the composer wants to express feelings and emotions , musical get sympathy. Works such as Beethoven 's music , he varied modal tonality , colorful harmonies , rhythms full of vitality express their philanthropic mind, do not succumb to fate. His work is his portrayal of life , with music to create an all-encompassing world: love, friendship , joy , struggle, heroes, fantasy , sadness, longing , etc., all human emotional experience have been described . Listening to his music in the world at the same time , got the same resonance and Beethoven , Beethoven depicted them to realize an all-encompassing world , but also from his music has been touched and strength. " Music in the great composer 's pen, using purely his personal performance method is the most perfect expression of the universal human emotions ." ④
Modern scientific evidence musical expression not only born human emotion , but also has the role of emotional regulation of human emotions . Quick pleasant music can make people excited ; rhythm slow, melodic music can make people become stable ; melodic sounds of music can make people relieve fatigue , relax. Music through the sound wave propagation in the human body physically to a specific frequency , sound pressure , etc. directly on the eardrum , the brain and the body's various organs in order to achieve the purpose of regulating emotion emotions . For example, when people feel tired, listening to Vivaldi's "Spring" , Debussy's " sea " and so relaxed and smooth music can enhance the process of cortical inhibition , regulate excitatory inhibition, it tends to balance , accelerate fatigue the disappearance ; when people were disappointed when listening to Beethoven's "destiny" Symphony , "Ode to Joy " and can inspire people the power to give people hope and longing for the good things .
Since the music gives people a variety of emotional experience , to give people a variety of different emotions feelings, then the music education which , we should focus on developing students' musical experience. How can we feel and experience the music 's emotional mood it ? One is to train students from the auditory perception of melody , harmony , color , rhythm and other musical expression of emotions ability to master the musical beauty of form ; two is to train students to experience the inner emotional music , the music of which experience to the musician 's feelings, and get moving and resonance.
Music education before the baby is born already begun. When the fetus is still the mother , when the development of the ear has been completed, then you can choose some of the more light , lyrical song as prenatal music, in order to develop physical and mental health of the fetus , the fetus shaping good character and emotion play a subtle role . "In the Stern " baby interpersonal world, " a book , Stern described the children from birth to 3 years of age of four progressive stages of self-development , early childhood music to illustrate the emotional and cognitive development of infants just birth, known as ' inevitable self' stage , this time a child's basic perception and motor nerve tissue began to build , is characterized by its perception comes from a feeling of channel information can easily be passed to another feeling tract , such as hearing voices in addition can hear , but also can be seen or felt the motor nerve . infant excited to hear the music will appear after a very intense orgasm or aesthetic pleasure in infants 3-8 months, is the self-development of the second phase, known as the ' core self' stage , which is an independent physical reality of perception , and in the baby will catch the only song or melody tone phrase , or a co- beat voice issuing vague syllables and so on. the third stage occurs between 8-15 months , known as the ' subjective self' stage of this phase has already begun to infant perception of music from 15 months to 3 years ' symbolic self' stage, vital to the development of children 's music . this stage, good music for them is essential to make children 's musical talent and emotional unprecedented development . "⑤
In children 3 years of age , you can commence with their music education system . " Music education should be systematic , and only good for children , with the artistic value of the musical material ." ⑥ music education from the beginning of the song begins. The human voice is the most beautiful voice , but also the most natural sound grasp the best , so singing is everyone can participate in musical activities , is to learn the basics of music is to carry out an effective way to popularize music education . On the one hand , through singing , children are easy to grasp pitch, rhythm, tempo, key type, color and other music emotion expression ability to grasp the formal beauty of the music . Formal beauty through music , teaching them how to tell the mood of music . Music for the future of artistic expression , emotional processing , analysis and other musical foundation . On the other hand , through singing, improve children's aesthetic sense , learn to listen healthy , beautiful , beautiful , has the connotation of songs, and appreciate the song 's emotions and other emotions . "For singing tone characteristics and different cultural backgrounds raising children is also linked to the way in those particular to encourage children 's self- awareness and self-confident cultural environment, the voices of children , especially boys, will sound like high and shrill ; sex was significantly suppressed in the cultural environment, they tend to multi-use nasal singing , and the range is very narrow . " ⑦ teachers in the choice of teaching content , be sure to choose the best song professors, such as the folk song is a good professor content. Folk have a very profound , wonderful and rich content , which not only has a strong emotional color and characteristics of the times , as well as to love moving and subtle educational function . Not only to understand a country's history , culture, life , customs and ways or working people in the life and work of their own creation, their singing songs, expressing their emotions and feelings. These have a strong emotional ballad recorded for each stage of people's lives. Ethnic folk singing , pay attention to sing Mongolian folk songs have open , robust, courage and personality characteristics ; Uygur folk song full of decorative , lively, cheerful , with a segmentation of dance rhythms characteristic ; Yi folk fresh and moving with simple, delicate feel , rhythm rich features such as the expression of the feelings of the people of color minority ethnic features. In addition to choosing the best song as Professor of content , but also to pay attention to the methods of instruction , the child is easy to use accepted methods and keep the interest of the activities causing the child and language , making them easy to understand, accept and love .
When the child has mastered intonation , rhythm , speed, tuning tonality , color, etc. the ability to express musical emotions , music, beauty of form and basic aesthetic sense and appreciation , it has gradually deepened feel the music culture and enhance their inner feelings , experience among the musicians in the music passion of the music to get moved and resonance. Affection and love , which is always in the music theme , we want students to experience , understand music in a variety of affection and love . Such as listening Nie Er 's "Anthem " maximize inspire our patriotic enthusiasm, give us great encouragement and motivation, inspire us for their country strong and high morale to fight. From Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " , we can feel his mind fraternity for all mankind , vision of world peace , the desire for a better future and composer resonate .
" Music as people 's emotional experience , a new experience varying degrees , and gradually get beyond reality , beyond the realm of music itself modality in music , we can do is to touch any chord melody , any music to the rhythm of beating heart and lung, the effects of music to melt any emotion, eventually we will be the influence of the music into a new emotional world . " ⑧ by listening to a variety of rich emotional content of music , so that we in the music and experiencing and sharing the common good of human emotion and desire to make our emotions in music further sublimation. |