Cultural Development Of New Curriculum Music Teaching In Inquiry

With the reform of music curriculum, the new curricular standard in China integrates and expands the traditional content of music class in elementary school and middle school. "Music and related culture" is part of this new area. Music and related culture concentrately embody humanities attributes, which refer to music and social life, music and companion arts, music and other subjects, characterized by extensive knowledge and strong participation. The expanding of culture intension is of importance to the students knowing about music value, and its signification to the human development from different views. Since it is proposed, it has attracted many concentrations. In the music classes, there is a trial of culture expanding, and music classes are becoming exciting. However, under the surface, there exist some problems, which should be thought rationally, calmly and objectively.This research was inspired from the theory of culture expanding in music class, using the theory and the practice, to analyze the situation of culture expanding in music class, conclude the changes of culture expanding, and pinpoint the problems. This thesis has described some cases in music class, analyzed them in the aspects of music and social life, music and companion arts, music and other subjects, according to the curriculum and try to get some successful experiences from these cases, which are useful in music education. At last, with my reflection on the theory and practice, I try to provide some suggestions for music teachers, and hope these ideas are helpful for music teachers to understand culture expanding, and to use them in their education practice, and to make culture-expanding play an important role in realizing the aim of music education.