With the continuous development of quality-oriented education, people are increasingly seeing the aesthetic education function of music education, realizing that music education can cultivate civilized fashion and aesthetic ability, cultivate spirit and character, and have a positive impact on people's moral education. The development of intelligence, the training of keen senses and reaction abilities, can promote physical and mental health. It is pointed out in the music teaching syllabus: "School music education must include in-class teaching and extra-curricular activities, which are a whole. Music teaching without extra-curricular activities is incomplete music teaching [1]." Extra-curricular music activities refer to teaching in Under the requirements of the syllabus, educational activities in various forms and with a wide range of contents are organized, planned and purposefully conducted for students outside of class. Extracurricular music activities are an important part of school education and play an irreplaceable role in students' all-round development. However, in the current situation where the proportion of music classes in primary and secondary schools is very small, the teaching conditions and facilities are incomplete, and the teaching quality needs to be improved, it is not enough to just limit it to classroom teaching. It must be organically combined with extracurricular activities to be complete. of. So how to effectively carry out colorful extracurricular music activities? This article has made some discussions and expressed my personal opinions.
1 The significance and role of carrying out music extracurricular activities
Music extracurricular activities can not only stimulate and cultivate students’ musical interests and hobbies, improve students’ music appreciation and performance abilities, but also enable Students gain more aesthetic experience and develop a good sense of cooperation and team spirit. The overall meaning is: extracurricular music activities are (1) an important way to enrich students' extracurricular life and promote students' all-round development morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically. In the process of participating in music activities, students develop their interest in music and aesthetic ability, enrich their spiritual life, cultivate their sentiments, and improve their quality and ability in all aspects. (2) It is an important position to strengthen the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and an important part of campus culture. Most of the extracurricular music activities are group activities, which are conducive to cultivating students' good qualities of caring for the collective, uniting and loving, and observing discipline. They can enrich students' spiritual lives and enhance the concept of collectivism. (3) It is the cradle of developing and cultivating musical talents. Satisfy the desire of students with musical talents and interests to study music further and further develop their interests and talents. (4) In line with the physiological and psychological characteristics of teenagers who are energetic, curious, and active. Organizing students to participate in activities can expand students' horizons and expand their knowledge areas, allowing students to be exposed to a wider range of knowledge and receive more information.
2 Basic forms of music extracurricular activities
2.1 Mass music activities
When we carry out specific music extracurricular activities, we must not only pay attention to the personality differences of students, but also Pay attention to mutual improvement. Mass music activities and publicity activities are conducive to popularization, so that every student can fully develop. It includes school-level and class extracurricular activities, including mass singing activities, such as the "Song of the Week" singing competition; special music appreciation or music lectures; comprehensive music competitions; concerts and art performances, etc., such as festivals day music events. For example: the theatrical performance on Children's Day on June 1st, the special party on "The Love between the Military and the Civilian, Deep Love between Fish and Water" on Army Day, the "Love My China" Song Concert on National Day, the "Celebrating New Year's Day Literary and Art Gala", etc., using poetry and Songs and dances are linked together to express children's sincere feelings of loving life and loving the motherland through performances, choruses, and singing and dancing. The other category is music activities combined with the school’s thematic education. Such activities need to be carried out in close cooperation with various departments of the school, such as: focusing on the theme of publicizing environmental protection in the school, organizing a special performance of "We Are Together Under the Blue Sky" with the brigade department; cooperating with the logistics department to create a "Cherish" The special work "Every Grain" carried out poetry and dance performances.
2.2 Improving music activities
Including on-campus music clubs (commonly known as interest groups), such as chorus, band, dance team, etc. Interest groups mainly focus on group activity tutoring, and also provide focused guidance to individual students, which is conducive to improving the music skills of a few top students. Give full play to students' collective and individual initiative, independence and creativity. For example, a dance team in middle school needs to participate in performance rehearsals. Students first look for information on their own and make selections with the help of teachers. After the program is set, they then rehearse the dance. They watch the disc and learn the moves by themselves. If they encounter difficult tasks and cannot do it, The movements were adapted and adapted under the guidance of the teacher, and the rehearsal of this dance was finally completed. In this way, it not only cultivates students' ability to independently discover and solve problems, but also develops students' organizational skills and creativity, and also greatly reduces the teacher's work. Another example is that in the process of learning rhythm in lower grades, teachers can guide students to the beautiful nature, listen to the beautiful and interesting rhythms in life, and guide students to find and imitate the crows of chickens, dogs, birds and cicadas. , gurgling water, rumbling machines... and then inspire students to express them with music rhythm. In this way, students not only feel the beauty of nature, but also develop their imagination and creativity.
2.3 Practical music activities
Music activities not only make you happy, but also serve others and society. Only in this way can we truly put our learning to use and give full play to the service function of music itself.
Such music activities mainly include: organizing condolence performances, such as performing in welfare homes, to bring joy to the elderly and orphans; participating in some charity performances, such as "hand in hand" theatrical performances, etc., to cultivate students' good qualities of caring for others. Cultivate them with a high sense of social responsibility. In addition, the development of extracurricular music activities also plays a huge role in the overall development of students. It can expand students' musical horizons, enrich music experience, consolidate and improve the basic knowledge and skills students have learned in music classes, and develop students' abilities to feel, express, create, and appreciate music. During the activities, the students enhanced their musical practical ability and innovative spirit, achieving the effects of music to support morality, music to improve intelligence, music to promote physical fitness, and music to make people happy. At the same time, by carrying out a variety of extracurricular music activities, the school has developed a large number of teachers with special skills, which has improved the professional level of teachers to a certain extent, effectively adjusted teachers' lives, reduced and eliminated work tension and fatigue, Keep teachers in a relaxed and happy mood and improve work efficiency. Healthy and progressive collective music activities also provide conditions for coordinating interpersonal relationships on campus.
3 How to carry out music extracurricular activities more effectively and issues to pay attention to in organization and training
How to carry out extracurricular music activities more effectively? This question is worthy of all of us All must be considered. Through research and discussion, I believe that schools and teachers should pay special attention to the organization and training of these two subjects.
3.1 Schools should effectively carry out various activities to allow students to choose independently
Schools should first have strong teaching staff. When carrying out activities, they must pay attention to the richness and variety of content and reflect on traditional music. Most of the extracurricular activities are to cope with the school's various competitions, so as to form music teams to carry out activities. The content is limited to chorus, dance and instrumental music. The content is too single and the students' choices and participation are also narrow, which affects The development of activities has been neglected, and the huge role of music extracurricular activities in educating people has been ignored. At this time, schools should try their best to offer courses based on students' interests, because for primary and secondary school students, interest is a very important factor in learning. Starting from the needs of students' growth and the actual situation of the school, the school should design a music extracurricular activity intention form. First, teachers and students are allowed to choose the corresponding music activities independently, and then the instructor, activity venue, and activity time of each project are determined according to the teacher's expertise, and then the participants are determined according to the students' choices. In this way, the content will be enriched, participation will be wider, and students' enthusiasm will be higher. As a result, extracurricular music activities are no longer the exclusive preserve of top students, but have become a mass activity. In colorful music activities, students happily master basic music skills, understand basic music culture, gain aesthetically pleasing experiences, and enhance their interest in further learning music, so that students can "learn through fun and learn through fun" and be filled with music. In life, let happiness accompany you throughout your life.
3.2 Schools should fully tap resources to allow teachers and students to make progress together
Schools should fully tap beneficial resources, such as human resources, media resources and publicity positions.
3.2.1 Fully mobilize all human resources
When schools carry out extracurricular music activities, it is not enough to rely solely on one or two music teachers. All human resources must be fully mobilized. teachers. For example, to carry out "One Song a Week", this first requires music teachers to make suggestions to the school. If the school thinks it is feasible, then it must fully mobilize all manpower, such as mobilizing each class teacher to vigorously publicize and cooperate with the work in the class, etc. wait. At the same time, schools should set up annual summer or winter vacations to train teachers on some music knowledge and skills, such as "Training and Conducting of Chorus for Primary and Secondary School Students", "Appreciation of Chinese and Foreign Masterpieces", "Children's Dance Creation Methods", etc., so that teachers can Music literacy and ability have been improved, teachers are more enthusiastic about their work, activities are carried out more smoothly, and the quality has also improved significantly.
3.2.2 Make full use of media resources
Modern teaching media is an important part of modern educational technology. It greatly improves the transmission speed of information, stimulates students’ enthusiasm for learning, and improves teaching. efficiency and better play the role of high-level teachers. In order to better carry out extracurricular activities, it is very necessary to use some modern media resources. The methods are generally as follows: ①Introduce and provide information on some excellent and classic works, and guide students to appreciate them after class. ② Organize and attend music popularization lectures and watch movies and TV shows about music themes to learn some basic knowledge of music. You can also organize to go to the opera house to enjoy famous Chinese and foreign operas, dance dramas, etc., to cultivate students' artistic sentiment. ③Use the campus radio to play excellent songs (music) in a planned way, so that students can listen more, so that students can be influenced more intuitively and feel the beauty of music.
3.2.3 Fully create a stage for students to display
The school’s publicity position is an important window for educating students. The most effective way to create a display stage for students is through the school’s publicity position. way. I have noticed that many art training center schools use television, advertising, and create competitions for students to participate in domestic and foreign competitions to increase the school's visibility and attract students to sign up for training.
So in school, we can show music to students through campus windows, blackboard newspapers, libraries, reading rooms, newspapers and periodicals, etc., so that students’ music activity results have a stage to display, so that students can learn more that they have not learned in the classroom. Music knowledge, I also learned many excellent qualities from musicians and cultivated my sentiments. For example, some put photos of students' theatrical performances on display to let students see their own image on the stage and improve students' awareness of active participation. Some publish some short stories of musicians or serial music knowledge on the blackboard newspaper, attracting students' attention and love, and learning some knowledge from them. Others provide students with a broader musical world through library books and magazines, allowing students to wander freely in the kingdom of music. In addition, various methods such as briefings, newspaper clippings, music stories, music tabloids, etc. can be used to create a stage for students to display, thereby further increasing students' enthusiasm for participating in extracurricular music activities.
3.3 Teachers should mobilize students’ interest in learning
Having aroused students’ interest, it can be said that our purpose of carrying out extracurricular music activities has been half achieved. With interest, they can actively participate, and our work will get twice the result with half the effort. Without interest, even if teachers and students spend more time and effort, they will only get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, motivating students' interest is the first priority for teachers to carry out music extracurricular activities. First of all, teachers themselves must be fully committed, that is, they must not only have a serious attitude in teaching, but also must have a dedicated spirit. Therefore, for every rehearsal and training, teachers should first adjust their psychology and emotions, infect students with full enthusiasm, and attract students with vivid, lively, humorous language, rich facial expressions, images and even exaggerated movements. . For example: when asking students to express cheerful emotions, teachers must first show an enthusiastic and joyful expression; when asking students to express lyrical emotions, teachers must first show an affectionate expression. In short, in the teaching process, the teacher is like an actor performing a play, and the actor must be devoted in order to perform well and attract the audience. Then when treating students, teachers should mainly praise and encourage them frequently. For some students with poor music foundation and students who are not interested in music, as a music teacher, we should encourage students mainly by praising them in teaching. When students get affirmation from their teachers, they will usually increase their learning confidence, which will also improve their confidence in learning. They will increase their interest in learning and actively cooperate with the teacher's teaching work. Some of the students who were praised even played an active and backbone role.
3.4 Teachers should be good at using figurative language to inspire students
Although organizing extracurricular activities is different from music classes, it is also a kind of teaching given by teachers to students. So how to enable students to better grasp the content and requirements of training, teachers need to put some thought into it. Teachers who are good at using figurative language to inspire students should pay special attention when teaching music skills and techniques. Because of the abstract nature of the subject of music, only by guiding and inspiring through figurative language can students comprehend this knowledge faster and more accurately. techniques and techniques of the art. Therefore, teachers should pay attention to this when teaching extracurricular activities. For example: In the dance fitness class, when asking students to do the basic upright posture, I used "measure height" to inspire: "Students all hope to have a tall and slender figure. We now lean our bodies against the wall and try our best to Elongate the neck and body, and measure to see if they have grown taller." By guiding them in this way and letting them experience it repeatedly, many students' original bad postures such as chin, hunchback, and forward neck are also reduced in a short period of time. has been corrected. In the teaching process, teachers should be good at capturing some of the experiences and feelings of students in their daily lives, and be good at using some popular, specific and figurative language. In this way, students can meet the training requirements faster and better, and more Quickly and better grasp the training content.
3.5 Teachers should pay attention to integrating aesthetic education
When adolescent students receive music education, they should focus more on improving their aesthetic and appreciation abilities of music art. Our music extracurricular activities are not just for students to master certain music skills, nor are they conducted to participate in a certain competition or performance. Our purpose is to cultivate students' healthy aesthetic taste, feelings and experience through activities. The ability of musical beauty, and to cultivate sentiment in music activities to improve students' artistic accomplishment. Therefore, integrating aesthetic education into activities is an issue that teachers must not ignore and is the ultimate goal of our music education. He not only cultivates students' appreciation of art, but also improves students' expressiveness in interpreting art when singing, dancing, and playing, and also greatly improves the quality of the program. Therefore, in training, teachers should focus on cultivating students' emotional and emotional expressions during performances. Even if the student's voice is not beautiful enough during the performance, the movements are not perfect enough, or occasionally one or two notes are wrongly played, the teacher should always remind the students that the audience must know what you are performing. Once, when I was rehearsing the song "Guerrilla Song" in the activity class choir, I first introduced to the students that it was a march-style mass song. The tune was brisk, fluent, lively, and reflected the difficult environment behind enemy lines. The optimistic mood, high morale and revolutionary pride of the guerrilla fighters in the army require students to express the image of the guerrillas as resourceful, flexible, brave and tenacious. Through such explanation and analysis, students can have a deeper and thorough understanding of the works.
In this way, students can better achieve some delicate artistic processing and expression, instead of simple expression. Integrating aesthetic education into activity classes not only enriches and broadens students' musical horizons, but also greatly improves the level and quality of rehearsal programs in activity classes.
In the process of carrying out music extracurricular activities, teachers’ “three attentions” are not relatively independent in teaching, but are complementary and inter-connected. Therefore, these three questions are very important for teachers who carry out extracurricular music activities.
Conclusion
Therefore, we are fully aware that it is far difficult to improve students’ ability by relying only on forty minutes of teaching in music class. We can only work hard to create a music environment and give full play to the first The role of the second classroom is to further stimulate and guide students' interest in learning music, allowing students to participate and experience in various music activities; allowing students to receive more musical influence and infection outside of class; allowing students to understand from all aspects and angles The charm and truth of music. In this way, students' musical abilities and literacy can be gradually improved and students' comprehensive and healthy development can be promoted.