Discussions on Local Music Culture Inheritance in Music Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
Zhang Kewu ◽  

The relevance of this topic is linked to the need to understand the way in which Asian countries develop theoretical musicology in active cross-cultural communication. This work examines Xiao Youmei (1884–1940), one of the most outstanding representatives of Chinese music culture in the first half of the XXth century. His contribution to Chinese music education and science include the organization of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (1927), the upgrading of national musicology and the development of the first textbooks on music theory and history for training specialists. Of particular importance is Xiao Youmei's educational activities, related to the study of European music and the definition of the main directions in its research. The article mainly discusses the methods used by the Chinese musicologist in introducing European music to the students of the first music educational institutions in China. Theoretical and historical problems of European music are taught in Xiao Youmei’s textbooks: "Essays on the History of Western Music" (1920–1923), "General Musicology" (1928), "Harmony" (1932). They were distinguished by the following features: an overview principle of the presentation of the material, an expansion of the range of languages used by the term authors, several musical examples and a lack of scientific resources, which is explained by the stage of origin of the music educational system and scientific platform in China in the first decades of the XXth century. One of the main features of the content expressed in Xiao Youmei's textbooks is the correlation between various parameters of Chinese and European music. The paper provides examples illustrating the method of using the notions of one thinking system to explain the other (in the field of harmony, instrumental science). It is explained by the transitional stage in the formation of Chinese musicology — from the old system of notation to the new one.


Author(s):  
Valerie Peters

This chapter examines how music education can benefit from the use of new electronic tools and materials for music making that allow learners to combine their interests and prior understandings toward deepening their engagement in music. By exploring how rhythmic video games like Rock Band bridge the large chasm that exists between youths’ music culture and traditional music education; how inexpensive recording hardware and software such as Audacity and GarageBand have provided youth with opportunities to compose and perform as only professional musicians could in the past; and how software like Impromptu successfully engages youth in music composition and analysis by enabling users to create and remix tunes using virtual blocks that contain portions of melodies and rhythmic patterns, this chapter argues that twenty-first-century music education, with the help of new technology, has the potential for engaging greater numbers of young learners in authentic music making and performance.


Author(s):  
Abdumannon Makhammatov ◽  

The essence of the formation of the issues of accelerated introduction of computerization of education in the lessons of "Music Culture" in the school in the process of educating students.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Chenghai Yang

In the pre-Qin period, Confucius proposed six subjects namely the etiquette, music, archery, driving, literacy, and calculation. Among the six subjects, music was ranked the second. Among them, traditional education in China can fully reflect the importance of music education, and the essence and core of music education can be reflected from the requirements of aesthetic education. In recent years, with the continuous development and improvement of production and life, the theme of education in today's society has changed, and quality education is the center and focus of education today. Moreover, people begin to focus on how to inherit and publicize the traditional music culture. As the music culture is of great importance, many people are encouraged to continue to practice and publicize the traditional music. The main point of this article is Confucian theory of music education.


Author(s):  
Jelena Martinović Bogojević

Encouraging musical creativity in primary schools in Montenegro and Slovenia is determined by the course programs for music education, according to which music teaching in two countries is realised through three musical activities: performing, listening and creating. The similarities between the two primary education systems are characterised by the nine-year duration of primary school, which is divided into three threeyear cycles. Programme for the course Music Culture in Montenegro, dating from 2003, has been developed in collaboration with Slovenian experts. Thus, creation, as an activity, was clearly defined and has been represented in all the revised and new programs that followed. The aim of this paper was to analyse the representation of creation as an activity through which some of the important goals and learning outcomes are achieved in both general primary education systems. The obtained results show that this activity is more concretely represented in the Slovenian programme, and that a higher level of systematicity in its definition has been achieved. Comparative analysis can also serve as a guideline for future improving the programmes and a clearer definition of what is meant by musical creativity in the teaching of music in primary schools of two educational systems.


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