Author(s)

Yuze Zhao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Teacher's College, Beijing Union University, Beijing, 100011, China

Corresponding Author

Yuze Zhao

ABSTRACT

Human beings are eternal in their pursuit of beauty. Aesthetic education is indispensable at every stage of human growth. The Chinese people's pursuit of "truth, goodness and beauty" is a dialectical and unified aesthetic pursuit. Universal basic music education plays a vital role in the early development and shaping of the aesthetic personality. Aesthetic education is realm education not bottom line education. Basic music education is the starting point, not the end point, of training highly qualified people. A person's aesthetic standards are ultimately reflected in his or her cultivation as a person. If knowledge is emphasized over aesthetic education, society will be "illiterate, but aesthetically illiterate". People's moral thinking will increasingly degenerate into bottom-line thinking, and the pursuit of a better life will stagnate and lack momentum, or even lose its direction. It is the duty of the society to cultivate aesthetic personality in basic music education from the "children". Victor Hugo once said that music, writing, and mathematics are the three keys to human intelligence, of which music education plays the most intuitive and enlightening role. It is necessary to return to the nurturing nature of basic music education by adopting the approach of teaching and learning with fun. By summarizing the development rules of classical music education in music history, using interdisciplinary knowledge integration and introducing music technology and other factors, enhancing the ability to use aesthetics, comprehending music philosophy and connotation, continuously guiding students to recognize beauty, discover beauty, comprehend beauty and pursue beauty, nurturing "beautiful hearts" and inspiring "intelligent minds", so as to better play the long-term role of basic music education in cultivating aesthetic personality and serving the development of the information technology era and make the world a better and more splendid place.

KEYWORDS

Basic music education; aesthetic education; aesthetic value; personality; realm

CITE THIS PAPER

Yuze Zhao, Discussion on the Role of Basic Music Education in Cultivating Aesthetic Personality. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2023) Vol. 6: 68-76. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2023.061512.

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