Speculation On The Music Education In Higher School

The music education in universities and colleges refers to the art education, of which knowledge and appreciation of music is its main content, the college students of non-music major are its objects, classroom teaching is its major means, and on-campus cultural activities are regarded as its carrier. Having stepped into the 21st century of the highly-developed technology, society is presenting its change every day with competition becoming more and more intense. The proposal of new notions such as "Science and technology is productivity" "Science and technology helps our country thrive" makes it urgent to foster the persons with all-round qualities. However, the quality of art is most important one of them. At present, the music education in China is quite poor, especially in the western China. This condition firstly results from the present education system, social situations, and people's concept. Secondly, since they are not music major students, their education in this period is professional education and technical education on their major mainly. Thirdly, the music education hasn't been regularized and systematized on teachers, curriculum setting and art practice. To improve the socialist culture and ethics, and inherit conventional culture of Chinese nation, we have to strengthen the training of college students' art qualities.Although the whole society is calling for the importance of art education, people haven't realized it in their practice. During the period of middle school, music classes are often neglected or even canceled because of the pressure of entrance examination for university, which makes the music education chasm between middle schools and colleges. We should attach great importance to the phenomenon.This thesis uses a lot of methods such as questionnaire, comparative analysis, induction and deduction, etc. to investigate the present situation among eight universities and colleges in four districts of Jin, Ji, Lu and Yu. It reflects some universal problems and phenomena existing in music education, and some suggestions are submitted. The author tries to summarize the exclusive feature of music in art science on the basis of integration of experience for music education and function of it. And, treating the music as...