Tentative Exploration Concerning Eliminating The Illiteracy Of Music

Music is an art with a long history, which has been always accompanying human beings. Today, as people's living standards are being improved steadily, music has seeped into the whole society and become an essential part of people's life. The ongoing new-century music education has provided people with better condition to approach music; meanwhile, the social musical environment helps more people experience the charm of music. This thesis proposes a project to "eliminate the illiteracy of music"(EIM), which is referred to getting people away from the state of knowing nothing about music. This is supposed to be the result of music education popularization. Bennett Reimer, a famous music educator in America, has explained elaborately and wittily the idea of EIM in his representative work " A Philosophy of Music Education". This idea is the original inspiration of this thesis.This thesis will focus on the definition, criterion and practice of EIM. The introduction explains the background of composition, the value, theoretical and realistic significance of the subject Chapter One explores the implication of EIM among the relationships between EIM and note reading, music performance, music appreciating, musical culture. It is supposed to be an inseparable complex of these relationships. Chapter Two addresses the basic principles and the details of the criteria of EIM. The principles are three unifications between generalization and peculiarity, between stability and variety, and between inherence and externality. The details are the possession of the basic sensibility of music aesthetics and the capability of the basic musical performance, fundamental musical knowledge, a healthy aesthetic attitude and a lasting impetus for learning music. Chapter Three discusses various means to the realization of EIM The music education is regarded as the major approach to EIM, especially in regular institutions of higher learning. The necessities are provided by social musical and cultural environment...