A Research On Improvisation Education Of Chinese Traditional Music

Music improvisation, as a special artistic creation way, has been paid attention to by more and more scholars of ethnomusicology and music education in Europe and America for one century. From the perspective of inheritance and innovation of CTM (Chinese Traditional Music) , this paper attempts to explain music improvisation and its education of CTM and introduces them into schooling setting in order to cultivate the students to love legacy of CTM culture and to have creative consciousness ,thought and ability.Firstly, this paper analyzes some viewpoints on music improvisation at home and abroad in order to redefine concept of music improvisation. Music improvisation of CTM can be divided into three kinds of types: the model style, the free style, the spread style. The process of improvisation of CTM has been summarized as three stages: "inheritance, Variation, innovation", namely "the inheritance is the foundation, the Variation is the power, and the innovation is the ultimate goal and the result". This paper also has analyzed the variation behavior process, the initiation variation factors and the variation techniques in the CTM improvisation. The philosophy and psychology foundation as well as the cultural and education value of CTM improvisation education has been explained. The CTM improvisation education is the particular concretion and practice of "creation-based" philosophy view of music education and fuses the three philosophy views of music education: aesthetics, praxial and cultural. On the basis of the thoughts of Polanni' tacit knowing and sight-taste-insight of Chinese traditional aesthetics, this paper explores the rules of CTM improvisation education which is summarized as three dimensional patterns: "integration, transcendence, innovation", namely, "integration is the inheritance foundation, transcendence is the Variation power, the innovation is the ultimate objective and the result".This paper explores the CTM improvisation education practice by using folk songs and instrumental music as the teaching material and carrying on the variation in the prototype foundation. Finally, this research introduces CTM improvisation education into schooling context in the elementary schools. The experiment students' music works has been exhibited and the creative test data has been analyzed. They demonstrated practice feasibility and effect.Adopting to the methods of the documentation, Field work, experiment, questionnaires and quantitative data statistics, the study systematicly demonstrates the theoretical foundations, teaching patterns and practical rules of the CTM improvisationeducation.