Author(s)

Yihong Shan

Corresponding Author

Yihong Shan

ABSTRACT

Quality education requires the comprehensive cultivation of students in the five aspects of "morality, intelligence, body, beauty and labor", which provides a new development space for aesthetic education. Among all kinds of courses that students study, music appreciation course is the most appropriate course with aesthetic consciousness. Cultivating students’ aesthetic consciousness through music appreciation course has become a universal behavior of all schools. The integration of music appreciation and aesthetic consciousness training can give full play to their advantages and better cultivate students’ aesthetic consciousness. Conversely, music appreciation is inseparable from aesthetic education. Aesthetics is the core of music appreciation teaching, which is conducive to promoting the communication between subject and object. Conversely, music appreciation is inseparable from aesthetic education. Aesthetics is the core of music appreciation teaching, which is conducive to promoting the communication between subject and object. In the teaching of music appreciation course, students are the aesthetic subject and music is the aesthetic object. The teaching of music appreciation should take aesthetics as the core and promote the communication between the subject and the object. Music appreciation can arouse students’ love for life, nature and music. This paper makes a brief analysis of the aesthetic consciousness in music appreciation, the effect of music appreciation on the cultivation of college students’ aesthetic ability, and how to improve college students’ aesthetic ability through music appreciation.

KEYWORDS

Music appreciation, Aesthetic consciousness, Quality education