A Comparative Research On Early Modern Chinese And Western Music Curriculum Concept

Education, which is regarded as the most important strategy for every nation to compete with others, is the foundation of a country. The essential element in educational competition is talents, thus developing education and bringing up talents with ability and quality become a significant content in world reformation. Curriculum is the core factor in education, which presents national education goal in a large extend. Music curriculum is becoming a pop topic in education and other fields in Chinese new round elementary curriculum reformation, which is not only the results that aesthetic education is prevailed and paid more attention, but also the embodiment of the developing tendency of multi-culture. Music curriculum is concerned with the realization of quality education goal and the future talent ability; therefore, how to exert the special functions of music education is an important issue which matches the reforming trend and elementary education development.This paper presents the curriculum ideology in Chinese modern music c urriculum c oncepts such as music e ducation r ecognition, music culture heritage and measures adjustment, adopting methods including document analysis and comparison and starting with the educational sayings and teaching practices of modern Chinese music educators. By analyzing and evaluating the music curriculum concepts in Britain, America, France, Germany and Japan, the improvements made in music education prevalence, humanistic quality prominence, expressing and creating ability recognition are expatiated. The commonness between Chinese and western music curriculum concepts are analyzed from three aspects concerned with society, school and individual of music curriculum which i s viewed from the historical e volvement o f Chinese and western music curriculum concepts. The nationality and...