Study On The Practice And Theory Of Piano Optional Course In Colleges

Public music education attracts more and more attention in colleges in china . Piano optional course , which is one of practical courses in public music education , is offered especially for non-music majors , aiming at learning music through practice , fulfilling through learning the process of from felling to appreciation and finally to creation on aesthetic perception of music . The course can also let the undergraduate learn music knowledge , master skills and improve their aesthetic judgment by appreciating piano music and piano-playing practice .Few colleges offer this course at present in china because of the lack of study on it . However , It is warmly welcome among the undergraduate and needs exploring positively . In teaching approaches , appreciation and practice which was applied separately before can be combined together to deepen the theory study, which differs from other piano-playing courses .The subject of the course is the students who have never learned piano lessons or have elementary ability to play . The course mainly applies the group from of electronic-piano playing on purpose of learning music through their personal experience and finally love music instead of acquiring playing skills only . Appreciation and piano-playing compose these two dominant parts . In music appreciation , whose background is based on music history and whose clue on art history of piano , piano works of different periods and different styles that are typical are carefully chosen .Students are expected to consider music from historical point of view and in cultural background , which would raises music appreciation up to the level of music culture . The arrangement of the content within a semester is listed in the essay , which takes No.5Piano Sonata (Op.10,No.1) by Beethoven for example to carry out the study on teaching approaches . The aim of practical piano-playing is to change inner emotions aroused by music during the course of appreciation into further understanding , emotional experience while playing and creative experience . In the part of piano-playing , playing exercises designed from easy to difficult, from simple to complicated , and illustrated with examples , start from the analysis of the composition texture of music . Combination of appreciation and piano-playing is the focus , and see to it that there are appreciation factors while piano-playing , and playing factors while appreciation .