Children And Music, Dialogue

Aimed at the study of 5 to 6 year- old children's characteristics of music appreciation, this research starts by adopting the method of the qualitative research and choosing 16 children from the top class in a kindergarten as the research object. By collecting and analyzing the children's reaction in the process of music appreciation , the researcher draws some conclusions. Children from 5 to 6 years old have music appreciation ability on a certain extent. The process of children's appreciating music is a process of their making initiative dialogue with musical texts .The children will regard many factors implicated in the music as the contents of the dialogue with music, including musical instrument and the way of giving out sound to make musical performance , motility and strain in the music, emotion in the music and images and details in the music. The children's characteristics of music appreciation are influenced by their character, experience and family education. The children can construct a whole meaning world which is suitable and wonderful for them during they make dialogues with music. By this way, the internal world of the children are enriched and developed; Musical texts also get enrichment and development through children's interpretation by their special way. The children make dialogues with music in a natural , diverse and individual way to experience and respond the musical text. They make use of stories and dramas, poems and drawings, the body language, their previous musical experiences , in addition to linguistic expression with colloquial words. A few of them even seem to appreciate music in a comparatively rational way . Researcher also has some reviews to music appreciation education after description and analysis to the characteristics of music appreciation.