Research on How to Cultivate Pupils' Interest in Music

Stimulating students' interest in music is a necessary condition to convey their musical charm. This is a famous saying of kabalevsky, a music educator. Psychology also points out that people's emotions and interests have a great influence on people's cognitive activities. If they are in high spirits and happy spirits, their cognitive effect will be good. If they have a strong interest in learning, they will take the initiative to learn, like learning and persist in learning. Einstein also said: "Interest is the best teacher". Therefore, stimulating students' interest in learning music plays an important role in cultivating students' musical literacy, improving aesthetic psychology and improving people's comprehensive quality. As a music teacher, I am very concerned about how to stimulate students' interest in learning. In particular, I found that many rural primary school students are not familiar with music. They lack a good environment and atmosphere for learning music. First, a good music learning atmosphere is conducive to the cultivation of interest. This atmosphere includes music in and out of class. In class refers to the classroom teaching atmosphere. A relaxed and democratic atmosphere should be created in the classroom. Extracurricular, generally refers to the campus atmosphere. For example, excellent Chinese and foreign children's songs and world famous songs can be played after class, between classes and on the radio. Make use of regular school lectures, music appreciation and other activities; Posting music pictures in windows and classrooms; Regularly carry out singing competitions, collective literary competitions and other activities to create a school music atmosphere. Let students be influenced by the artistic environment, thus stimulating their enthusiasm for learning music. The concept of superior education points out that "establishing a democratic and equal relationship between teachers and students is an important prerequisite to stimulate interest, develop potential, enhance self-confidence and learn to be independent." It is an important link to establish a "democratic" educational order for teachers to fully carry forward democracy and combine static with dynamic in teaching. "Moving" is an orderly and regular activity. Full of emotions, warm atmosphere and the courage to ask questions make students feel "a sense of accomplishment" and "relaxed". "Quiet" is not lethargy and listlessness, but concentration and active thinking. However, there should be strict teaching style and study style in the democratic teaching atmosphere, so as to be relaxed but not lax, rigorous but not deterrent. The combination of the two forms a harmonious and creative teaching environment. Teachers and students are happy to teach and learn, and their interest is naturally high. Second, the use of games is conducive to stimulating interest. Teachers should set up games full of life rhythm and fun according to students' psychological and physiological characteristics, and apply them to classroom teaching to stimulate primary school students' interest in learning music, especially first-year students. Grade one students have just entered primary school. They love to play and are very active. They have many ideas and practices, and they have inherited the style of kindergarten. If some games and competitions are added to music learning, students can study actively, happily and purposefully, and can achieve better learning results. Senior pupils also want to play games in class. They said, "Games should not be the patent of junior children". In the game, students hope to behave better and praise more in front of teachers and all students. For example, in the teaching content of the folk song Jasmine, I asked students to go home to find audio-visual materials, background materials and other materials about folk songs and communicate in class. And according to the learning content, ask students to cooperate with each other to perform. Students have a strong interest and active participation, and the classroom atmosphere is excellent. Such activities not only satisfy students' desire for expression, but also stimulate students' interest in learning and arouse students' initiative. Of course, there are various forms of games, and the key is that teachers should design and organize them skillfully. Third, stimulate students' practical interest. Psychologists believe that autonomous learning is the most effective learning. A person's interest is generated and developed in practical activities. There are many practical activities of music. Such as: singing, appreciating, dancing, creating, etc. You can also hold competitions in various music art practices to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of students. Let students perform the knowledge and skills they have learned in public, which can not only increase their sense of accomplishment, but also improve their interest in learning, cultivate their sentiment, exercise their abilities in all aspects and enhance their self-confidence. Fourth, constantly update and enrich the teaching content to stimulate students' interest. Bruner, a modern American psychologist, said: "The best stimulus to learning is to be interested in learning materials." Therefore, careful selection of materials and reasonable arrangement of music teaching content; Leave as much time and space as possible for students to study in class; Ask new questions and provide new information. For example, students' favorite songs, music, knowledge and stories can often be integrated into teaching, which not only greatly enriches students' learning content, broadens students' musical horizons, but also stimulates students' interest in learning and opens up a vast world. As mentioned above, there are many ways to stimulate students' interest in learning music. Only by paying attention to the cultivation of music interest can we successfully complete the task of music teaching, truly let students feel beauty, experience beauty and soar in the art space, and truly realize the educational goal of art education.