A Study Of The Type Of Music Teaching And Learning Methods In Secondary And Primary Schools

In the field of music teaching and learning, instructors, students, teaching contents, and teaching methods have become a whole teaching system. In this system, the teaching methods hold a prominent status. Instructors, students, and teaching contents are linked up each other by it. At the same time, these essentials are reciprocally influenced so as to realize the holistic function of the music teaching system. As we all know, to improve the quality and benefit of music teaching, and to propel the reform and development of it, it is significant to master and understand all kinds of teaching methods, to bring them into using in the teaching practices properly and creatively.Based on research and analysis of the documents of the music teaching and learning methods of latest 20 years from 1980s which were created in China or introduced from foreign countries, the article has summed up the type of the main teaching methods in music classroom of secondary and primary schools in our country, simultaneously, it expatiates, analyses and appraises the quality and characters, advantage and deficiency, value and function of each method in detail and objectively. There are three chapters in this article.Chapter one: pandect of music teaching method. This chapter mainly includes the following contents: defining the music teaching method; generalizing the radical characters; summarizing the basic principles to be complied in the using of the music teaching method; implying our own standards while introducing the classificatory standards of the music teaching methods used by national researchers.Chapter two: the normal teaching methods applied in the music teaching. This chapter principally recommends Tuitional Method, Conversational Method, Discussional Method, Demonstrating Method, Exercise Method, Discoverable Method, and Scene Method. These groovy methods are usually practiced in general specialty, butwhat attracts us is how these methods adopted and used for the reference in the music teaching practice.Chapter three: the teaching method of music subject. It is the key part of this article which consists of two sections. Section one: the teaching methods used in music study process at the basal educational stage. They approximately include all the teaching methods used in the music course of secondary and primary schools in our nation at present, such as Singing Method, Enjoyable Method, Instrumental-Music Method, Cognizing-Tune Method, Inventive Metlwd, Ail-Around Method of Artistic Performance, Music and Related Culture Method. Section two: the system and method of foreign music education. This part mainly introduces eight teaching methods: the Dalcroze Method, the Orff Method, the Kodaly Method, the Comprehensive-Musicianship Method, the Suzuki Method, the Kabalevsky Method, the Coleman's Creative Music for Children Teaching, the Carabo-Cone Method. We discuss the general situation and character analyses of each method in detail in the article.Epilogue: summarize the whole article; combined the sprite and notion of the music reform, the paper puts forward the evaluation principles and laws to be used in the practice of music teaching and learning in order to apply these methods accurately and properly.