Elementary and Middle School Choral Practice Tutorial

Author: Zhong Weiguo
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: Beautiful singing is the nourishment for the noble spirit and healthy emotions of young people. We use songs to call for truth, goodness, and beauty, deepening our love for the motherland and its people, filling everyone with beauty, courage, and hope. The spiritual and emotional impact of singing is so concentrated, direct, and enduring. People never forget the songs they sang in childhood, which proves the powerful spiritual and emotional effect of singing. Group singing can enhance musical knowledge and skills, enrich life, develop intelligence, and improve quality. However, the fundamental purpose or main function of group singing should not be limited to this—it should be a beautiful education class that cultivates noble spirits, nurtures healthy emotions, and carries out the beautiful education of nurturing people for a hundred years.
The spiritual and emotional educational role of language arts is significant. However, good group singing should not only, like language arts, understand and resonate with the spiritual and emotional essence and ideological imagery of the works; it should go deeper, requiring the promotion of a collectivist spirit of breathing together, sharing the same image, feeling the same emotions, and moving in the same rhythm. It should also be more vivid in singing and presenting art. In terms of the capacity of participants, it can be large or small. Therefore, we can say that in terms of spiritual and emotional cultivation, artistic image shaping, collectivist spirit development, and flexible participation numbers, an excellent group singing class should be the crown jewel of all subjects in schools.