A Psychological Study On The Interaction And Blending Of Command And Chorus

Choral conducting course is one of the compulsory courses of undergraduate program of music education, which is designed for undergraduate students to adapt to the elementary education. It consists of the theory and practice of choral conducting. This course can assist students to understand, experience and express music as vocal music singers as well as conductors. It plays an important role in improving students’ musical quality, training their cooperative ability, and enhancing their ability of expressing music. Since more and more research and practice about the choral conducting course have been conducted in universities, it’s status in music education hae been gradually improved. Different with the skill courses, such as the course of vocal skill and the course of piano, and theory courses, such as music theory and musical form, choral conducting course in normal colleges is a comprehensive course of theory, skill and teaching. According to sociology, pedagogy and psychology, the researcher conducts an investigation about the current teaching situation of choral conducting course and its curriculum design. First of all, the conductor’s psychological characters are important. As a leader of a chorus, the conductor should have good psychological qualities and characters. Choral conducting education has an important impact in the building of chorus, which is related to the teaching efficiency and the chorus’construction. The main psychological characters of a conductor conclude personality, prestige, willpower and individuality. A conductor should have leadership or prestige. The good personality and individuality, and strong willpower are the basic guarantee of choral teaching and performance. Secondly, the psychological characters of chorus members are very important. The psychological analysis of chorus members, which aims to understand students, is the premise of teaching. The main psychological characters of chorus members are summarized from students’ psychological phenomena during classes. The dissertation discusses this part from three aspects, including group psychology, suggestion psychology and stage fright and tension. Group psychology is an inevitable social psychological phenomena. A conductor should make use of the positive aspect of group psychology, and evade its negative aspect, which can positively intervene chorus members. A conductor should have a clear awareness of the effect of suggestion psychology, and use appropriate teaching language and body language. For the members’stage fright and tension, the conductor can help students to be psychologically prepared through making plan in advance. Another method to overcome stage fright and tension is accumulating members’experience by participating simulated trainings.Summarying the main psychological characters of the chorus conductor and members during classes and performance can paves the way for good interaction between the chorus conductor and members.The dissertation takes the choral conducting teachers and students from chorus courses as the research objects, and investigates the interactive teaching method through the choral conducting class. It focus on the characters of interactive teaching methods and the building of class environment. A good relaxed learning environment is the basic guarantee for interactive classes. According to the current situation of choral conducting courses in normal colleges, the dissertation points out that appropriate class size, more learning time and space are the physical elements of improving the interactive teaching environment. The emphasis of establishing the position of choral conducting as well as teaching students in the class represents the traditional Chinese teaching spirit---"teaching benefits teachers as well as students". Choral conductors and members interact with each other follow the spirit of equality, democracy, respect, which is also the social psychology represented in interactive classes.The difficulty of this dissertation is due to the insufficient theory, so this dissertation suggests some unmatured idea and teaching methods. The dissertation analyses the interaction between the choral conductors and members through two aspects, including the cultural aspect and aesthetic value. The theoretical basis is that music contains culture and aesthetics. Choral education is cultural education as well as aesthetic education.