Orff believes that the development of children's musical talent should start from its natural trend. For example, the quarter note is walking and the eighth note is the rhythm of running.
The value of music in children's education
Music plays an extremely important role in education. Music is an effective resource for teaching and learning. The ways to use music as a teaching opportunity can include the following: singing, listening, rhythmic activities, writing lyrics or composing new songs. By singing old and familiar poems, we can appreciate them and get satisfaction. Learning new songs can also help us understand how modern people express their beliefs and lives, and understand modern music forms. Music is important to children for the following reasons:
1. In childhood, children learned to express their joy with songs and express themselves through poems.
Today, commercial radio, television and pop songs are invading children's ears, affecting children's hearts with questionable philosophy, low moral standards and non-Christian values. We should also use these media to fill children's hearts and lives with truth and teach them to express their love for God and care for people in words. Music is an effective teaching equipment because it brings people happy experience. When something is interesting to do, it is easy to learn and easy to remember.
2. Preaching testimony
Music can enrich missionary work. Children are often attracted by the church because they are particularly interested in church activities, which may be church leisure activities, handicraft classes and music. Any of the above activities is valuable and can be used as a way to get in touch with children and guide them to believe in God. When children are attracted by music, opportunities for contact with church colleagues appear, and they further face the message of salvation.
Diversify the plan
The average child's attention span is not long. Although the length of attention will increase with age, it is difficult for young children to concentrate on one thing for a few minutes. The effective use of a carefully selected poem can increase the diversity of programs and greatly strengthen the theme of teaching.
4. Personal participation Personal participation can make individuals face their hearts more directly.
According to statistics, the income of students participating in activities far exceeds the income of passive lectures. And because music can be a tool for individuals to participate in worship and personal expression, it can enhance their chances of mastering the truth and accepting change. Participation can also make people feel part of a group.
Two. Choose music for children
Children's poetry does not always conform to the theological and teaching significance.
A. When evaluating the lyrics of children's poems, the following questions can be used as evaluation criteria.
1. Are the lyrics consistent with the teaching of the Bible?
2. Do the lyrics emphasize important truths?
3. Are the lyrics interesting and clear?
4. Are the lyrics suitable for all ages?
5. Do the lyrics inspire reverence?
B there are the following criteria for evaluating the melody and lyrics of children's poems:
1. The younger you are, the shorter the lyrics are.
2. The octave should be based on the central C, preferably from D below C to D above C. ..
3. The rhythm of the beat is dominated by the middle board.
4. There should be obvious changes in melody and chord composition to make this song easy to learn and remember.
5. Music should explain the meaning of lyrics.
Three. Selection criteria of children's poetry
A.2-3 Selection criteria of children's poems aged 2-3 years
1. The rhythm and rhythm of poetry should not be hasty and unstable, or add a lot of additional points, which is easy to make people sing wrong. It is a series of the same rhythm with a slight change (for example, "Jesus loves all children"). Choose two-quarters or three-quarters rhythm, because this is the natural rhythm (walking, stepping, clapping) that is most suitable for children's body and activities.
2. The melody of melody poetry should be simple, beautiful, pleasant, smooth and somewhat repetitive.
3. Chorus poetry should include a basic chord (there are no discordant chords with little difference), and smooth chords are characterized by little difference between chords. And it's a major, not a minor.
4. The volume of children's poems should be average compared with other strong poems with varying volume.
The speed of children's poetry should be the speed of the middle board, but it should not be too slow to keep up with the lyrics and lead to loss of interest. Not too fast, lest the child can't hear clearly and can't keep up. The speed of poetry also needs to match the rhythm of their activities.
6. The sound quality of music poems should sound comfortable and not harsh. The vibration of music should not be too wide, but it should not be short of vibration, so as not to sound weak and flat and have no connotation.
7. Lyrics The lyrics of poetry must be able to match the age group and convey what the age group knows. Lyrics should be easy to pronounce, syllables simple and simple to repeat.
B.4-5 Selection criteria of poetry for children aged 4-5
1. Rhythm Rhythm teachers can start using songs with syncopation in the rhythm, and children can try to match this melody with their developing sense of rhythm.
2. The standard of melody melody is the same as the selection standard of poetry for children aged two to three.
3. Chorus teachers can use songs with great changes in chorus, but they still focus on major.
4. The teacher can start using songs with strong sounds, if these strong sounds are smooth and meaningful.
5. Speed teachers can start to cooperate with more activities with more lively speed (to make songs more vivid), but the speed of each song should be different.
6. The standard of sound quality is the same as the selection standard of poetry for children aged two to three.
7. Lyrics teachers can start using lyrics containing new words. If these new words are coherent with other words, familiar words can bring out the meaning of new words.
8. Methods Songs should be sung in chorus. Let the students listen to simple, beautiful and high-quality chorus (not gospel poetry or chorus, but poetry). You can form a rhythm band. Play appropriate music during the activity. Pupils may want to adapt songs into plays.
9. Style is best to use lyrics of short sentences and repeated sentences. Keep understanding of songs at their age level. Choose poems with worship and use simple but high-quality music (not necessarily chorus). Students may start to like some concerts, listen to some music tapes or teach the choir to sing.
C. Selection criteria for children's poems in primary and junior high schools
1. Rhythm and prosody teachers can start introducing songs with three-quarters or six-eighths beats, or they can use songs with more rhythm changes.
2. Melody Melody can also have a large interval gap, which can be about three or four tones.
3. The standard of chorus is the same as the selection standard of poetry for children aged four to five.
4. The volume teacher can emphasize strong sounds to increase the impression. He can also use more gradually changing volume.
5. The speed teacher can change the speed of each song, but not too fast.
6. Sound quality teachers can introduce new songs through different musical instruments.
7. Methods Teachers can introduce two chorus songs. Let them listen to children's poetry classes and musical instruments. Familiarize children with the sounds and names of musical instruments.
8. Style teachers can broaden the fields and ways of music expression. He must continue to cooperate with the Music Worship Party.
D. Selection criteria of children's poems in high and low grades
1. Senior and junior students have been able to improve the accuracy of syncopation singing. You can use a more exciting rhythm form, such as 24 beats or 44 beats, which is more stressed in the first beat and the split beat.
2. Melody teachers can use melodies that can evoke and revive new religious experiences, even if it is not easy to sing.
3. Chorus teachers can introduce a minor if it meets other standards (such as the God of Abraham).
4. The teacher can naturally use the expression of strong volume.
5. Speed Teachers can use different speeds.
6. Sound quality teachers should strive to introduce good quality music and integrate different sounds. He wants to encourage students' musical performance, even if the quality is not satisfactory.
7. Methods Teachers can form music groups, such as juvenile poetry classes or wind bands. Students will like listening to famous music.
8. Style Children can try four choruses. Don't be too different. When improving the quality, we can try new music fields. Today's church music is very different in style from before. The rich industry of our traditional church music, together with the modern gospel songs witnessed by ourselves, has greatly enriched the new country songs, which children can feel immediately.
Four. Children's music teaching methods
When teaching children music, we must consider some special steps of music education at different ages. Here are some important principles for teaching children music.
A. Children between two and five years old
1. Children aged two to five don't need piano accompaniment to sing cakes. If you use the piano, you should play it gently, not hard.
At this age, the purpose of playing the piano is to create a mood and atmosphere. A record player can achieve this goal relatively easily.
3. The speed should never be too fast, the lyrics should be short, and the range is mainly central C, from E to C.
Teachers should learn new songs before teaching them. Before teaching children to sing poetry, he must put himself in the position of learning to sing several times. Melody and speed should be clear Don't encourage children to sing loudly, so as not to hurt their undeveloped voices.
B. Primary school students
1. Pupils learn quickly and forget quickly, so be sure to review the same song in turn until they remember it.
2. The lyrics can be short and fast, but the speed is faster than that of the lower grades.
3. Poetry must be more rhythmic and vivid.
C. Senior and primary school students
1. Senior students can develop reading skills and memory ability. It is very important to encourage them to recite the lyrics and Bible verses.
2. Senior students like competition, and they can use competition and rewards to encourage learning.
3. One way to teach singing poetry is to write the lyrics on the blackboard, teach the children to sing loudly, and then erase the lyrics one by one. You can erase the verbs first, then the nouns and other parts until the blackboard is empty.
4. At the high and low level, the field of beat and the length of lyrics may be more challenging. Music styles can be varied, ranging from healthy and joyful poems to poems with depth and dignity.
5. Advanced poetry can emphasize salvation, service, devotion to prayer, housework and missionary work.
6. Help senior students choose the poems they want to sing. Teachers can explain how to use the index of songbooks to find poems and ask them to choose God's love. Poetry with the theme of faith.
7. You can also encourage senior children to write their own songs, or at least encourage them to express their ideas in the form of poems. Self-expression is far better than academic perfection.
8. Pop music has a great influence on children, especially when they grow up and enter adolescence. Therefore, we suggest that teachers should pay attention to the form and content of songs that children often listen to. Because some songs are acceptable, some songs may destroy children's morality and values. Knowing some popular music can help us discuss important and meaningful issues with students. You can use some good songs to discuss the meaning of faith, and you can discuss the acceptable and unacceptable views in these songs.
9. Students will feel new gratitude to their teachers because they are interested in their own times and care about them. On the other hand, it is also wrong to think that students like listening to pop songs on radio charts. We also need to know his other interests in music, such as joining the school orchestra, choir and individual music classes, and express our interest in the development of music in these fields.