Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2017, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (5): 117-127+162.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2017.05.010

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Aesthetic Experience of Music Appreciation Teaching and Empirical Evidences for the Functions

CHEN Lijun1, WEN Qi2,3   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China;
    2. The Faculty of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715;
    3. College of Music, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Online:2017-10-20 Published:2017-09-14

Abstract: Aesthetic education is one of the major issues in educational reform.Affective experience is an important means of music education. Aesthetic-focused music appreciation teaching is the key to the development of students' aesthetic experience. In view of the connotation of aesthetic education, in this paper we first described the characteristics and the forms of various music aesthetic experience, and identified four types of aesthetic experience of different music styles. Next, we provided empirical evidence to confirm the influence of musical aesthetic experience on personality, music appreciation and cognitive development. Then we dealt with the relaxing and adjusting functions of the musical aesthetic experience. Finally, based on these functions, we put forward several suggestions for the musical aesthetic education. It's hoped that music education focusing on aesthetics can offer new thinking and methods for music appreciation teaching.

Key words: education of music appreciation, music aesthetic, education of aesthetic experience, music training