A Practical Study To Enhance Children's Musical Perception In Music Games

Early childhood is a very important period of music development during one's life.The present situationof preschool music education in China is thatparents and teachers pay more attention to training children's musical ability.Therefore,manymusic institutions hold lots of concerts and classes,trying to let the childrenbe influenced by what they constantly see and hear.However,the development of music education in China also caused many problems.For example,schools think that skills are regarded as more important than general literacy,so that's why many children can not actually perceive the beauty of music,appreciate the beauty of the music,what's more,they even short ofmanifesting the feelings of music.What's worse,some of themhave already lost interest in learning music,this kind of phenomenon which related to teachers' teaching methods has been pointed out in some researches little by little.Obviously,it is so important that we should focus on developing children's perception of music and changing the teaching methods and concepts of teachers to make children feel the music by themselves.In hence,this study proceeds from the real music teaching situation,combined with daily music teaching activities in kindergarten.Those methods we use in this research including: “literature research,observation,case analysis,practice research.” During the study,researchersdefinea scientific understanding of the concepts about: "music game","music performance","music perception" through collecting the materials,discriminating the difference,identifyingthe data and finishing documents.At the same time,researchersuse a variety of methods to implement the music teaching in such a natural and real education environment.During this research,we observethe subjects(children)in the music game,record their behavior and performanceby writing the notes,taking the picturesand recording the video.Finally,the researchers combine the literature and observation records to analyze the behavior of children in musical games,and summarize the general and universal rules and methods.This paper consists of five parts: The first chapter “Introduction”(mainly expounds the origin and significance of this study).The second chapter “music performance characteristic and music game”(mainly elaborates the origin and characteristics of music,the music games,its nature,classification and function).The third chapter“children's psychological development and music games”(mainly introduces the characteristics of psychological development of children,different stages of children's psychological development,the relationship between the children's psychological development and music games).The fourth chapter is the part of practice in the study(mainly expoundshow to enhance children's music perception in different music games).The fifth chapter is summary and outlook of this study.Through the research,we draw the following conclusions: the researchers succeeded in stimulating children's love of music through different music games.We trigger a child's inner touches on music.We change the traditional teaching methods in music class.We improve the children's perception of the music ability in the music game.