Strategies for Improving High School Students' Music Appreciation Ability in Chinese Senior High School Music Teaching

Abstract

With the deepening and development of China’s new round of curriculum reform, senior high school education has increasingly emphasized the comprehensive cultivation of students' overall quality, covering morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, labor, and cultural literacy. As an important part of senior high school education, music courses are not only a key carrier for enhancing students' aesthetic taste but also effectively relieve academic pressure and enrich their spiritual world. However, current senior high school music education in China still faces many practical difficulties, such as insufficient school attention, weak students' interest in music learning, poor reserve of music theoretical knowledge, unclear assessment criteria for music appreciation ability, and insufficient consideration of the feasibility of teaching reforms in different regional contexts. These problems have seriously restricted the improvement of students' music appreciation ability. Based on teaching practice, integrated with global research on music pedagogy and aesthetic education, as well as cognitive and affective learning theories, this paper explores effective strategies for enhancing senior high school students' music appreciation ability from four dimensions: concept transformation, method innovation, resource integration, and evaluation optimization. It also clarifies the assessment criteria for music appreciation ability and analyzes the feasibility of reform implementation in urban and rural schools, so as to provide more comprehensive and practical reference for the reform of senior high school music teaching.