The Teaching Principle And Application Of The Music Tree

Since the 1980 s,piano educators in the United States have adopted the experience and theory of child psychology to design the elementary piano teaching materials for children.These new textbooks not only start from children’s cognitive psychology,choose the content and the way of writing,but also pay attention to the cultivation of students’ comprehensive musical ability.At present,China has successively introduced excellent piano enlightenment teaching materials such as "Bastian Piano Course","Alfred’s piano basic course","Faber piano basic course",etc.which conform to the principles of child psychology and are more conducive to children’s piano learning."The Music Tree" is a set of piano enlightenment teaching material which has not been introduced yet.It shares some common points with the above ones while having its own characteristics.Some domestic teachers have adopted it in class already.This paper takes "The Music Tree" as the research object,uses literature analysis method,to explore the compilation of teaching materials ideas,theoretical basis,and put forward suggestions according to the teaching practice.This paper is composed of preface,conclusion and three chapters.The first chapter mainly introduces the teaching methods of different cognitive order in the piano enlightenment,as well as the teaching differences of different piano enlightenment materials in the introduction stage,and reveals the diversity of the piano introduction teaching.The second chapter analyzes from unit content structure,the logical relationship between units of the "The Music Tree",interprets the overall design ideas of the textbook.The third chapter,through the example of the content of the textbook,the psychological principles used in the compilation of the textbook are discussed and suggestions for the use with other textbooks are put forward.It is a sincere wish that the analysis of this set of book can explore the excellence of foreign advanced teaching materials,broaden the teaching ideas and methods of piano enlightenment,so as to provide a meager strength for the research of local enlightenment teaching materials.