The Enlightenment Of American Tanglewood Declaration To The Public Music Education Of Ordinary Colleges In Our Country

The public music education of ordinary colleges has grown fast and obtained great achievements during over 20 years after reform and opening-up. But there're still some problems which are as follows: First, public music education of ordinary colleges didn't face all students yet; Second, the content of curriculum was set up unreasonably and lack the part of world music culture.In 1960s Tanglewood Declaration was published in America, which firstly advocated that music education should become the core of school curriculum and then confirmed art as the core of school curriculum in Goal in 2000: Law of American Education for the first time. Influenced by Tanglewood Declaration, a lot of American universities opened the curriculum of world music and published many teaching materials about world music.According to the main problems existing in public music education of ordinary colleges in our country, we should draw lessons from the spirit of Tanglewood Declaration and develop the public music education of ordinary colleges both facing all students and offering the content of world music culture to them.This paper is formed of three parts which are as follows: Part one introduces the current situation of public music education of ordinary colleges in our country and the predominant existing problems; Part two introduces the influence of "Declaration" and the enlightenment to public music education of ordinary colleges in our country; Part three introduces the necessity and concrete implementing methods of popularizing the content of world music curriculum in public music education of ordinary colleges.