Music Appreciation (Part 1)

Author: Liu Huaqiang
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: The "University Music—Appreciation and Practice" series textbooks are designed based on the current musical foundation of college students, in accordance with the Higher Education Teaching Framework of the Ministry of Education, and are aimed at music elective courses for non-music majors in universities. By combining Chinese folk music and traditional culture with the world's advanced Orff music teaching system, the textbooks emphasize the participation aspect of music learning, integrating teacher-student interaction throughout the teaching process to enliven the music elective classrooms for non-music majors. Additionally, they utilize special methods of music education to cultivate students' interest in learning, refine their character, inspire their enthusiasm for positive and healthy thinking, and ultimately enhance their comprehensive cultural literacy.
Each volume of the systematic "University Music—Appreciation and Practice" textbooks has relative independence and systematic content. Every volume consists of two parts: theory and practice, with the goal of engaging students in musical activities. This is also the philosophy and concept of Orff music education that we have adopted. We know that music is a humanistic art, as it originates from human beings themselves. Therefore, music education should follow the same principle: first, one must do it oneself, and in the process of doing, one falls in love with music, feels music, appreciates music, and learns music.