| As early as the1940s, music course has been set up in schools ofChina. As a subject that aims to cultivate the tastes and improve thecomprehensive quality of students, music course has gone throughreform over and over again with its teaching method receiving wideconcern in recent years. As a kind of art integrating the sense of visionand hearing, dance owns the indivisible relationship with music.Learning dance can also e nhance the aesthetic judgment ability ofstudents and is conductive to develop their adolescent temperament andpersonalities.By inquiring relevant resources, reading literature works, andconducting interview with music and dance teachers in schools, thispaper attempts to carry out specific exploration through questionnaires,have in-depth understanding about the status quo of music course inprimary and secondary schools, and analyze the finings as well as data.Based on the study of music course teaching standard, the roughdirection of current music teaching and specific details have beenanalyzed and studied to find out that dance content is seldom involved inthe music course for primary and secondary schools, and theimplementation of dance teaching is restricted by the faculties andhardware facilities, resulting in the difficulty of its popularization andpromotion. Whether the music rhythm a dance work follows inperformance or the music melody integrated in the dance editing, theyhave both reflected the basic characteristics of music, and even thecreation background of the music work along with the thoughts andemotions for expression. The appreciation and learning of dance can beseen as the most direct and simplest way to help students learn music.Meanwhile, it allows students to relief their mind and exercise they bodywith the expansion of views.The paper is composed of four parts, including the status of musiccourse in primary and secondary schools within this district, the mutual penetration of music and dance, the case of dance teaching in musiccourse, and the teaching practice conception with the integration ofmusic course and dance teaching. In addition, according to the teachingstandard of music course, this paper analyzes and studies the generaldirection of music teaching nowadays in detail, to summarize the actualproblems existing in schools by describing the actual situation of musiccourse there. Furthermore, researches are conducted specific to theproblems about how to make students feel the music connotation betterand how to combine music and dance effectively in teaching.Nevertheless, new requirements for the comprehensive teaching abilityof teachers and teaching environment of schools have been proposed interms of the new teaching approach. The teachers shall be equipped withcompetence of various aspects, including music foundation, basic danceskills and musical programming of schools. Today, primary andsecondary schools have already started to recruit teachers good at musicand dance course teaching, and normal schools nationwide havecultivated batches of such synthesizing type of talents, which have allmade it possible to realize the opening of music-dance course.The teaching mode combining music and dance courses is worthpracticing and promoting, for it supports students to show themselvesfrom a variety of aspects and increase their self-cognition competence.More importantly, it encourages and promotes students to participate inthe stage performance, so as to enhance their self-confidence and offerlife-long benefits for them. To be realistic, this paper obtains the dataand results of research through survey and combines the majorsuperiority of the author personally, to put forward the recommendationof introducing new music-dance course in primary and secondaryschools, which is with important realistic significance for the musiceducation in primary and secondary schools, and the paper is expected toprovide reference for the all music educators and researchers. |