The Analysis Of General Music Education In Chinese Colleges & Universities

There are three independent patterns in Chinese Higher Music Education System; they are higher professional education, Music Teacher Education and General Music Education. Most of students in Chinese universities and colleges are involved in general music education; so the pattern of music education plays a very important role in Chinese higher education, and is directly connected with all-round development of students. The general music education in China has been ignored for a long time, and only recently has it gained the prominent status which it deserves. the past thirty years have witnessed the high-speed development of the general music education. As a result, reviewing the education is necessary and helpful for the further development.Above all, the philosophies and ideas about music education are reviewed. A broad perspective of music education is provided, which put more emphasis on diversity of functions and purposes of music education, more emphasis on education activities outside classroom, and students' senses, feelings, emotions and their initiatives. So in the next main part of the thesis, elements of the educated that affect the education, such as students' abilities, preferences and activities, are intensively surveyed and analyzed. In the third part, the conditions and factors about the education provider are investigated. The last part, corresponding to the problems in the general music education which have come to surface through the survey, delivers some advises to promote the general music education.