Applications Of Orff Schulwerk In Collective Violin Teaching

Nowadays, as one of the major forms of aesthetic education, music education has become more and more attended and emphasized by people. The "aesthetic" in "aesthetic education" can be regarded as "virtue", "beauty-appreciation", and "aesthetic perception", just as the name implies, "aesthetic education" is aimed at entertaining body and heart, cultivating skill and temperament. Reviewing the current status of music education in China, it has seemed to enter a misunderstanding labeled as "cultivating sentiments", especially the child violin teaching has gradually tended to be "skill-based" and "specialized", the child violinists are indoctrinated with the multi-dimensional concepts such as musical knowledge, motor skills as well as music performances which are necessary for learning violin under the premise of having no emotional experiences and thinking excitations, this "skill-imparting" boring and monotonous teaching mode is against the psychological development and cognition regulation of children and ignores the developments of the children’s subjective activities and personalities in learning music, makes the child violinist’s initial visions of learning music come to nothing, and replaced by fears and perfunctoriness to learn violin, as time passes, both the child violinists and parents will become exhausted, some children even change their countenances when talking about "violin", and have psychological shadows. This kind of "cultivation" is undoubtedly ridiculous and very difficult to realize the targets of music education as the aesthetic education.As one of the world’s four musical pedagogies, the "original" integral artistic concept of Orff Schulwerk conforms to the development trend of violin art, and his teaching mode follows the children’s physical and mental development regulations, and makes "interest" lead the children’s will, so music naturally penetrates into the children’s souls. As a violin educator, how to skillfully fuse the Orff teaching concepts into the violin teaching is a subject to be considered and researched by the author.