A Perspective On Multicultural Music Teaching

Multicultural music teaching value as the most leading values in the present music teaching reform meets the new needs of the modern development of music teaching .In the light of the fundamental idea of ethnomusicology "music in a culture "and "music as a culture", it cries for a cultural pattern of music teaching in which music is inquired to be taught and learned as a culture so that students are familiar with their native music and have a knowledge of the music from all different parts of the world, developing gradually their various capabilities of cognition ,appreciation and comprehension for the purpose of a sensible bimusicality and polymusicality as well as an all-round knowledge of the world music cultures. Therefore, the thesis deals with the three aspects of multicultural music teaching as following.Firstly, a probe into the realistic context of multicultural music teaching value guided by the human values, cultural attitudes, social spirit and the thinking styles, is based on the three levels of the global cultural development trend, the transformation of the postmodern teaching patterns and the music values of multiple culture.Secondly, a summary of the multicultural music teaching paradigm is based on a new perspective and insight of music teaching which can be put in practice in such ways as below: The teaching content is covered with the world multiple music culture instead of a single one; The teaching goal is to establish a cultural- comprehension-oriented value in the place of music aesthetics as a core of music teaching; The teaching methods are turning from the technique-centered approaches characters of knowledge transference and skill acquisition to a human adoption of instinct appreciation and cultural cognition.Lastly, the significance of the multicultural music teaching value in practice is carefully predicted. First of all, it is helped to protect and broaden native music cultures, and then it can also make students familiar with the world multiple music culture so that they can establish and develop a multicultural value.Overall, multicultural music teaching value is a leading value of the music teaching in globalization time , the birth of which has embodied music teaching with a new meaning and content, turning a new leaf of modern music teaching.