The power of music can change the trajectory of a person's life, but in rural areas, the music education of rural children is still relatively weak, in order to allow more children to have better conditions to learn music, help them open the door to explore the dream of music, since 2019, the Southern Metropolis Daily and Hualian Development Group, launched the "Rural Singing Music Classroom Aid Construction Public Welfare Program", the high-quality music education into the national rural schools, better help rural revitalization.
At present, the "Rural Singing Music Classroom Aid Construction Public Welfare Program" has built 5 singing music classrooms in 5 rural schools. On November 5th, the sixth stop of the "Rural Singing Music Classroom Public Welfare Aid Project" will come to Shengping Primary School in Zijin County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. The sixth rural singing music classroom is about to be opened, and the organizers set up the Zijin County Shengping Primary School Choir to Shengping Primary School, and filmed the original song "We Are All Stars" music mv for the children, listening to the children sing songs on the field.
Set up a rural school choir to sing songs on the fields
This year, the "Rural Singing Music Classroom Aid Construction Public Welfare Program" family ushered in "new members". In October, the fifth rural singing music classroom was settled in The Second Middle School of Crescent Lake Education Group in Xingqing District, Yinchuan City, and on November 5, the sixth rural singing music classroom will also be inaugurated at Shengping Primary School in Zijin County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province.
The sixth rural singing music classroom is about to open, what are the unique ways to "welcome the new" this time? In mid-October, the organizers walked into Shengping Elementary School to select the members of the school's choir, and taught the members music, filming the music mv "We Are All Stars".
"The stars are hanging on the trees, blinking eyes one by one, the moonlight gently knocks on the window, carrying dreams and flying with me..." After a week of training, the children of the Shengping Elementary School Choir performed the song "We Are All Stars" with their hearts.
"The country kids are like stars in the night sky. They stayed silently in the night sky, blinking their innocent eyes in a flash, waiting to be seen and discovered. Chen Yifan, the song creator of "We Are All Stars", introduced that moonlight is the public welfare force of the guide and all walks of life, "Moonlight" pulls away the clouds, knocks on the window of "stars", takes them to fly in the night sky, gives them a chance to bloom and realize their dreams, and there is a description in the lyrics of "Wait until the moon illuminates me, one by one to let go of the light, we pursue the dream forward".
"I love singing, singing makes me very relaxed", Shengping Elementary School sixth grade student Ye Lu shared, the sixth grade usually does not take much music class, this choir formation, she learned new songs and learned some music knowledge.
"I didn't have the experience of so many people singing together before, and when everyone sang together, they were very happy", Ye Huiting also shared her feelings about participating in the school choir during the rehearsal.
Why form a village school choir in advance? According to the organizers, the school will set up a school choir in advance to train the children, on the one hand, it is hoped that after the opening of the music classroom, the school and the children can connect the music courses carried out quickly through the rural music classroom; on the other hand, they hope that on the day of the opening of the music classroom, they will provide a stage for the children to participate, feel the charm of music, and enjoy their performances.
More than 200 musical instruments have arrived at the school, and Hualian Development Group will also give a love package
This time, Shengping Primary School in Zijin County, Heyuan City, received 200 musical instruments and more than 300 music books donated by the initiator of the "Rural Singing Music Classroom Aid Construction Public Welfare Plan" and Hualian Development Group. In addition to combining the actual situation of Shengping Primary School, Hualian Development Group purchased audio, teaching computers and other equipment for the rural singing music classroom; it also helped build music equipment in Combination with the actual situation in Heyuan, and donated musical instruments such as electronic pianos, harmonicas, thumb organs, ukuleles and other instruments.
At the same time, Hualian Development Group will also bring a "love package" to the school. The "Love Package" will contain children's playground facilities, laptops, jukeboxes, teaching machines, floor mats and other educational and teaching needs. Hualian Development Group hopes that in addition to solving the teaching needs of the school, these materials can also bring children the joy of growth, plug in the wings of dreams, and build a better future for children.
This time, Shengping Primary School in Zijin County, Heyuan City, also received music equipment donated by social caring enterprises and people through the micro-wish collection.
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Join hands with universities and social groups to export professional and high-quality music courses
In order to give the rural singing music classroom a more professional and comprehensive music teaching function, this year Nandu Linkage Xinghai Conservatory of Music established a music education practice base to conduct online music theory professional music training and provide help for the school with music education resources.
Students at Xinghai Conservatory of Music gave the children their first rhythm lesson
Ren Xiaomin, director of the Piano Education Department and associate professor of the School of Music Education of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, said that Xinghai Conservatory of Music has overcome the influence of factors such as the shortage of teachers and the heavy task of teaching work, and has finalized the direction of education and volunteer teachers and students, teaching forms and methods in a relatively short period of time, hoping to make the loving music education practice base have a certain scale and characteristics, and become a local music education base with extensive reference significance and influence, and help the development of rural music education.
How can the educational resources of colleges and universities accurately support the current situation of country music education? In the view of Huang Shamei, director of the Department of Music Education of the School of Music Education of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, the support of colleges and universities for rural music education can be divided into short-term, medium-term and long-term stages. "In the short term, in the absence of teachers in the countryside, we can teach online through outstanding students from the Conservatory of Music Education; furthermore, we can teach with the teachers of the schools that are helped, and help local teachers grow into more professional music teachers in the process of assisting the teaching." From the perspective of long-term development, it is even possible to discover children with strong local musical talents and cultivate their musical talents, and eventually this group of people will grow into music teachers and can return to the local area to participate in music education. ”
Huang Shamei introduced that the music education practice base established this time is mainly based on online music theory professional music training, and for children to carry out music theory teaching, not only to let them understand the concept of music, "We will also design a lot of music activities, let students experience music, let them combine music with life." ”
Huang Shamei also mentioned that she hopes that through the development of the curriculum, students can initially feel the different rhythms and melodies of music, "I hope that through 18 weeks of teaching, students can have independent reading scores and basic creation and editing ability, so that music appears a little more frequently in their lives and can enjoy music."
On the day of the launching ceremony on November 5th, Zhou Fei, a student of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, will also give the children the first rhythm and rhythm class in the rural singing music classroom, which will use as little music equipment as possible, and teach through singing, body rhythm, music games, etc., so that children can liberate their nature, feel the beauty of music in playing middle school.
Conduct more systematic online training on musical instrument teaching
This year, Nandu also linked up with the Shenzhen Musical Instrument Industry Association to conduct online training on musical instrument teaching and more systematic musical instrument teaching for rural children. Let "every family have at least one musical instrument, and every child learn at least one musical instrument" is the concept of the Shenzhen Musical Instrument Industry Association, which coincides with the purpose of the "Rural Singing Music Classroom Public Welfare Program". This year, after the launch of the "Rural Singing Music Classroom Public Welfare Plan", the Shenzhen Musical Instrument Industry Association actively mobilized member units to participate in it, and the musical instruments donated by member units were also sent to the rural singing music classrooms. At the same time, the assistance provided by the Shenzhen Musical Instrument Industry Association to rural schools has also been upgraded from the initial pure material donation to the output of the curriculum.
Yuan Yan, president of the Shenzhen Musical Instrument Industry Association, introduced that rural music education is still facing many difficulties, only musical instruments are not enough, the follow-up will provide a variety of musical instruments video teaching course package, professional music teachers to carry out Internet distance teaching, so that children can be exposed to professional music theory knowledge and musical literacy in the stage of music enlightenment. "The association will work with Nandu to send lessons to the music teachers with music teachers who have the conditions for the conditional country music classrooms, and teach the children face-to-face."
Coordinator: Nandu reporter Chen Rongmeicai wrote: Nandu reporter Xie Meng
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