Music Teaching Methods Research Articles

Exploration and Discussion on the Practice of Orff's Music Teaching Method in Preschool Education

Exploration and Discussion on the Practice of Orff's Music Teaching Method in Preschool Education

Book Review: Review of Performing Music Research: Methods in Music Education, Psychology, and Performance Science by Williamon, A., Ginsborg, J., Perkins, R., & Waddell, G.

Book Review: <i>Review of Performing Music Research: Methods in Music Education, Psychology, and Performance Science</i> by Williamon, A., Ginsborg, J., Perkins, R., &amp; Waddell, G.

Discussion on the Combination of Orff Teaching Method and Solfeggio Teaching

Solfeggio is an important subject to cultivate students' music foundation. This paper focuses on the application of Orff music teaching method in solfeggio teaching, and explains the positive role of Orff music teaching method in cultivating students' musical creativity, comprehensive quality of music and initiative in music learning. On this basis, this paper analysis the relationship between human instinct and music learning in Orff's music teaching method and puts forward the application strategies of music rhythm training, game simulation teaching and music situation teaching in the process of solfeggio teaching, so as to enhance the scientificity and effectiveness of solfeggio teaching.

Music Teaching Management and Music Culture Communication Environment Based on Ergonomics.

Music education has a relationship that is mutually restraining and interdependent. The necessity of spreading music culture offers music education social relevance and existential value in the history of music culture's growth, and the method of spreading music culture—music education—injects strength and life into the development of music culture. Music pedagogy is constrained by the evolution of music culture as a whole. In terms of music pedagogy, traditional culture and their peculiarities or qualities will have an impact on the creation of the curriculum content system, which is also the main topic of music teaching management. By using anthropometry, physiological and psychological measurement, etc. with the human body as the main body, ergonomics is the study of the reasonable coordination between the structure and function of the human body, psychology, mechanics, and music teaching methods in order to satisfy people's physical and mental activities and achieve the best use efficiency. The focus should be on comfort, great performance, safety, and health. In order to create a model for evaluating the quality of music instruction, a back propagation neural network (BPNN) is optimised in this paper using an adaptive mutation genetic algorithm. According to the research, our approach outperforms the BPNN model optimised using conventional evolutionary algorithm by 20.21%. The convergence pace is 80.11% faster than the convergence speed of a conventional genetic algorithm. The comparative result demonstrates that the BPNN teaching quality evaluation model with genetic algorithm optimization based on adaptive mutation can produce a more logical scientific evaluation result for the quality of music instruction.

Development and Optimization of Network Music Course Resources Based on Data Mining Technology under the Personalized Online Education Environment.

The ever-evolving Internet technology has brought more information resources for music teaching than ever before. For music educators, figuring out how to create and use these tools more effectively has become a pressing concern. China will usher in a new age of innovation and integration between the Internet and different traditional businesses with the idea of “Internet Plus.” MOOCs present significant challenges to traditional teachers and teaching methods as a typical practice of the transformation of education informatization to innovation, and they also drive global education toward a new process of informatization development. This paper adopts Internet thinking as the guiding ideology for the development of future music education concepts and, concurrently, conducts specific transformation research based on Internet technology from four aspects: music teaching content, music teaching methods, music education concepts, and the passing down of traditional music culture. The improved association rule algorithm is used to organise the students' access data, decide which high-frequency websites are accessible to the students, and realize the intuitive positioning of high-frequency access and learning issues. Assist the school's decision-making and educational levels in identifying the issues that students have with their learning, and then, improve the network teaching platform's material to complete the task of personalized network education.

Research on the Reform of Music Teaching Method in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Comprehensive Ability

Research on the Reform of Music Teaching Method in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Comprehensive Ability

Design of Vocal Music Education System Based on VR Technology

With the popularization of conceptual teaching methods such as quality education and comprehensive education in schools, China has invested more energy in art education. Especially the vocal music education of art education, under this background, its music education management has entered a new stage. Through a series of means to make teaching more scientific and standardized. Music teachers are of high importance in the traditional meaning teaching mode, and most of them teach in person. The traditional teaching mode has a single way and the content is lack of change. In a very short time, teaching will lead to poor information transmission. As a product of the information age, network teaching platform has gradually become a new way for people to obtain knowledge. With the support of modern network technology, the development and Reform in the field of education have reached a qualitative leap. In view of the singleness of traditional vocal music education methods and learning situations and the limitations of learning resources, this paper deeply discusses the influence of constructivism theory on music education based on Moodle platform. Combining music education with the teaching platform based on network environment, taking constructivism theory as the main theoretical basis, using network technology, a music education system based on Moodle platform is designed and developed. It realizes the collection, playback and real-time display of audio segments, and also has the function of vocal music scoring. This design makes vocal education lessons intuitive, interactive, and interesting.

Students' Attitudes Toward Online Music Education During the COVID 19 Lockdown.

Given the current pandemic context generated by COVID 19, important changes in the way specific subjects to music education are taught emerged, affecting not only the particularities of learning and teaching in individual courses, but also the other courses regarding group learning or theoretical subjects. In this time, emergency remote teaching and learning requires cross-collaboration between instructional, content, and technological teams. Our research examines the students' attitudes toward online education, also presenting proposals for optimization and efficiency. The research was undertaken after an experience of a University semester in a lockdown context, and it aimed at undergraduate and master's degree students from music faculties in Romania. An important result was the mediating role of perceived utility of e-learning methods, perceived utility mediated the associations between compatibility of online methods and satisfaction toward the use of e-learning methods. The perceived compatibility of e-Learning methods with online music education led to a higher perceived utility which, in turn, predicted a higher satisfaction toward e-Learning Although this period accentuated the fear of interaction with others, the anxiety related to the unknown, the intolerance of uncertainty did not predict the satisfaction toward the use of e-learning platforms. In conclusion, more educational initiatives are needed to promote remote teaching methods in music education. In the absence of similar research in our country, we considered that future research on this topic is needed.

On the Integration of the World's Three Major Music Teaching Methods into Music Rehabilitation Therapy for Autistic Children

Many scholars at home and abroad have proved that music has significant application value in rehabilitation treatment. Autism is very harmful to the healthy development of children. In recent years, many medical institutions in China have applied music to the rehabilitation of autistic children, and achieved remarkable results. This article takes autistic children as the research object, and takes the world’s three major music teaching methods as the research content, and discusses the feasible strategies and precautions for integrating the three teaching methods into the music rehabilitation therapy of autistic children.

Research on the Application of Orff��s Music Teaching Method in College Music Classroom Teaching

Research on the Application of Orff��s Music Teaching Method in College Music Classroom Teaching

ЖИТТЄВИЙ ШЛЯХ І НАУКОВІ ЗДОБУТКИ ПРОФЕСОРА О. Я. РОСТОВСЬКОГО

The article informs about Professor O. Rostovskyi’s life and scientific achievements&nbsp;significance of which is extremely great in the context of studying the formation of music&nbsp;pedagogy history in Ukraine since its independence.&nbsp;The purpose of our study is to draw attention to the figure of Oleksandr Rostovskyi in the&nbsp;context of music pedagogy formation together with the creation of a country of&nbsp;independent Ukraine. Also very important is to ensure a proper place for his proceedings&nbsp;among scientists who have worked on the same topic.&nbsp;We analyzed O. Rostovskyi’s biography and scientific heritage. Mainly the last oneconsists of music programs for primary and secondary school (created by a group of&nbsp;authors led by Oleksandr Rostovskyi) and lesson outlines; music schoolbook for 1st grade&nbsp;(co-authored); manuals on the music education theory and methods for future teachers&nbsp;of music who study at high educational establishments. Very special section of his&nbsp;research activities is scientific supervision of dissertations for the pedagogical sciences&nbsp;candidate degree in its total number of 12. A circle of like-minded people and students&nbsp;makes it possible to talk about a scientific school leadershiped by O. Rostovskyi which&nbsp;promoted related pedagogical ideas and had research topics commonality.&nbsp;The conclusion is that the scientific heritage of Professor O. Rostovskyi is one of thefundamentally important milestones in the development of Ukrainian music pedagogy&nbsp;during its independence and statehood formation.&nbsp;It is thanks to the scientist’s approach to teaching children music which was based on the&nbsp;use of national culture combined with the pedagogical concept of D. Kabalevskyi thefoundations of schoolchildren national self-identification were laid.&nbsp;This was critically necessary in rapid state-building processes terms and thanks toscientific supervision it became possible to use the complex of children musical education&nbsp;methods.&nbsp;The scientific originality of this article lies in the field of systematization of Professor&nbsp;O. Rostovskyi’s work. The practical significance means the acquiring of informative basis for&nbsp;further more detailed research.

Educational Psychology-Based Strategy for Instrumental Music Teaching in Normal College.

The study is intended to explore the teaching mode of instrumental music teaching in normal college, so as to have qualified instrumental music teaching talents. Based on relevant content of educational psychology, the current instrumental music teaching model of normal college should be reformed in terms of curriculum content, teaching mode, and teaching methods, and a more systematic and standardized education model should be established. As per Orff’s music teaching method, a music recommendation model is established based on the convolutional neural network model to provide students with a positive and happy learning environment for instrumental music, and music materials that meet their personal preferences and performance level through user data. The outcomes show that the designed music recommendation model has a music recommendation accuracy rate of 0.3 and a recall rate of 0.29 when the recommendation list is 30, which conforms to the general rules of the music recommendation system. The study is expected to provide reference for establishment of a standardized and systematic instrumental music teaching strategy in normal college.

A New Music Teaching Mode Based on Computer Automatic Matching Technology

The rapidly developing computer technology has been extensively applied in music teaching. The computer automatic matching technology supports the automatic generation of randomized teaching contents, providing a good tool to develop the musical thinking of students. This paper tentatively introduces this technology to music teaching, and derives a new music teaching mode. The results show that, computer technology can effectively assist in music teaching; the inclusion of computer technology in music teaching arouses students’ interest in music activities; the application of computer automatic matching technology has improved students’ professional skills, live music performance, as well as music ability. The research results greatly promote the reform of music teaching modes and methods.

An Empirical Comparative Study on the Two Methods of Eliciting Singers' Emotions in Singing: Self-Imagination and VR Training.

Emotional singing can affect vocal performance and the audience’s engagement. Chinese universities use traditional training techniques for teaching theoretical and applied knowledge. Self-imagination is the predominant training method for emotional singing. Recently, virtual reality (VR) technologies have been applied in several fields for training purposes. In this empirical comparative study, a VR training task was implemented to elicit emotions from singers and further assist them with improving their emotional singing performance. The VR training method was compared against the traditional self-imagination method. By conducting a two-stage experiment, the two methods were compared in terms of emotions’ elicitation and emotional singing performance. In the first stage, electroencephalographic (EEG) data were collected from the subjects. In the second stage, self-rating reports and third-party teachers’ evaluations were collected. The EEG data were analyzed by adopting the max-relevance and min-redundancy algorithm for feature selection and the support vector machine (SVM) for emotion recognition. Based on the results of EEG emotion classification and subjective scale, VR can better elicit the positive, neutral, and negative emotional states from the singers than not using this technology (i.e., self-imagination). Furthermore, due to the improvement of emotional activation, VR brings the improvement of singing performance. The VR hence appears to be an effective approach that may improve and complement the available vocal music teaching methods.

The Influence of Orff’s Music Teaching Method in Germany on Chinese Music Education

This paper expounds the concrete connotation of Orff’s music teaching method in Germany, and illustrates its characteristics of creativity and comprehensiveness. Then it analyzes the present situation of music education in China, and concludes that there are some problems, such as ignoring practice teaching, lack of creativity and singleness of education mode.

Creativity in Online Music Education Methods Courses: A Narrative Autoethnography

Creativity in Online Music Education Methods Courses: A Narrative Autoethnography

Enseñando música: Optimización del sonido, la técnica y la interpretación

Music is a cultural product that seeks to delight and provoke feelings to those who listen. This is why this article pretends to demonstrate that the education of new musicians is an holistic process in which technique competes with the development of skills that improve sound and performance. This article, through a literature review, discusses novel music teaching methods, which focus on integrality, where the teacher intervenes on several levels: sensory, postural, cognitive, motor and emotional. It also assesses Feldenkrais method as a practical approach to this integral vision and the role of the accompanist on musical performance optimization. Finally, it analyzes the pertinence of these new methods and the benefits they bring along, from examples obtained in the professional practice as a teacher in the University of Costa Rica’s School of Musical Arts.

EXERTING INQUIRY BASED LEARNING METHOD IN IMPROVING GIFTED STUDENTS’ MUSIC RECORDER SKILL

Previous studies show most gifted students have tendency towards music. However, it was found that most gifted students were having problem playing recorder using existing teaching methods. This has caused low achievement score in music subject. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the inquiry based learning method to enhance the recorder playing skills among gifted students. The study was conducted at a gifted institution in Malaysia. Data were collected through observation using Music Instrument Rubric and group interview in the fieldwork. Respondents were 27 gifted and talented students who did not attend any formal training in Western music and the only music background they had was gained from the school curriculum. Result reveals the inquiry learning method improves students’ achievement in recorder playing compared to previous conventional method. Observation indicates that students could play the entire song well in terms of pic accuracy, tempo consistency, tonal, musical shape and performance. Interview data shows students felt satisfied with their own style in determining the proper way to master the recorder skills. This study is expected to provide appropriate music teaching methods in the gifted and talented education system.

Modern Approaches to the Study of Music of the Twentieth Century

the subject of research – modern academic music of the 20th century is a special kind of art, the effective development of which by students of art departments and universities requires appropriate methods. The purpose of the work is to consider problematic teaching methods that ensure the effective mastery of complex artistic material by university students who do not have sympathy for 20th century music. To verify the effectiveness of the application of problem learning techniques when students mastered avantgarde music, a pedagogical experiment was conducted to introduce problem problems, the case method and the design method into the process of mastering musical and historical disciplines. The study carried out a theoretical justification and introduced into creative practice the methods considered, which made it possible to involve the student in the development of discipline in the process of creative activity, which significantly increases the level of cognitive activity and contributes to the formation of students; to solve the problem of modern musical skill, students of the musical and pedagogical profile of education were presented with problem problems, and the task requiring brainstorming – to practically “guess” the alleged image of the author – had the necessary didactic effect. Methodological recommendations related to the use of problematic methods in music education are formulated.

Zoltán Kodály gives a hand to secondary school students in recorder performance and attitudes toward music in Turkey

Kodály-inspired pedagogy enables students to participate effectively in a music course by engaging in active musical interactions with folk songs and melodies. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of Kodály-inspired pedagogy on recorder performance and attitudes toward music of secondary school students. A quasi-experimental design was used in the study. The experimental group was taught using Kodály-inspired pedagogy and the control group using the general music teaching methods for 9 weeks. A two-way mixed-design analysis of variance (ANOVA) and content analysis were used to analyze the data. A Recorder Performance Grading Key, music course attitude scale, and open-ended questions were used to collect the data. Consequently, the findings indicated that Kodály-inspired pedagogy had a significant effect on the students’ recorder performance but the researchers could not find a significant effect on students’ attitudes toward the music course. Moreover, students in the experimental group reported improvement in their recorder performance and attitudes toward music education. The researchers recommended including information about the implementation of Kodály-inspired pedagogy in music teacher textbooks, providing in-service training for teachers to enable them to use Kodály-inspired pedagogy.