What aspects should we pay attention to when rehearsing musicals?

The National Music New Curriculum Standard points out that drama is a comprehensive art, which is closely related to music. Music and drama performances are conducive to cultivating students' interest, broadening their artistic horizons and improving their aesthetic ability. In teaching, we should combine music with drama performance, attach importance to practical activities such as performance and composition, and develop students' expressiveness and creativity. In teaching, the spirit of "taking music aesthetics as the core, cultivating hobbies; Pay attention to music practice, enhance creative consciousness, carry out music activities around musicals, highlight students' subjectivity through students' active inquiry learning and rehearsal of musicals, turn past "passive learning" into current "active performance", develop students' performance ability and creative ability in practice, and then improve students' aesthetic ability and appreciation level.

[Teaching objectives]

1, through watching musicals and inquiry learning, let students know the main elements, origin, development and artistic characteristics of musicals;

2. By rehearsing famous music clips and creating small musicals, students can gain emotional experience and develop their performance and creative ability.

[General description]

Walking into Musical is a unit content, which is completed in four classes. First, organize students to watch the musical Cat and understand the three elements that make up the musical from a perceptual perspective; Then ask questions about musicals, so that students can find information in groups after class to explore and learn more about musicals from a rational point of view; Then let the students create and perform the musical Les Miserables in groups.

Students get emotional experience in rehearsal performance and cultivate their cooperative spirit; Music learning is applied to creative practice, so that students can gain creative experience, improve their interest in learning and develop their performance and creative ability.

[Subparagraph]

In class, ask the students first: "Do you know Xuelang Lake?"

The student replied, "I know! It is starring Jacky Cheung. "

Student: "I played in Guangzhou a while ago."

Health: "It's a touching love story."

Health: "The songs there are very nice."

Health: "I want to see it, but the ticket price is too expensive."

The students are talking noisily. )

The teacher then asked, "Do you know what art form it belongs to?"

None of the students can answer.

The teacher suggested: "Opera? Dance drama? "

Immediately, many students rushed to answer: "Musical!"

The teacher said, "That's right! Do you know anything about musicals? What is a musical? Have you ever seen a musical? "

The students all shook their heads and said that they had never seen a musical and didn't understand it.

The teacher continued: "I have a very famous musical" Cat "here. Do you want to see it? "

Almost the whole class answered "Yes!"

(In this link, I mainly want to draw the distance between teachers and students through Xuelang Lake, which students care about, to seize the students' hearts, attract their attention and stimulate their interest in learning musicals. )

In the process of watching, the students watched very intently and gave out some exclamations and laughter from time to time. Hearing the song "Memories", the whole class unanimously said, "Ah? This! " "The song that Sarah Derman sang!" "It turned out to be a song from Cat."

I specially arranged it when I was teaching design. I know that students will react when they hear this song. The purpose is to let students know that most of the English songs they usually like to sing are world famous songs. The works enjoyed in the music class include both national and classical works and modern popular works that they like to sing. In order to change students' prejudice against music lessons. )

After watching it, I said, "Please sum up what a musical is?"

The student said, "Music is an art form of singing and dancing."

Health: "Musicals are composed of music, dance and drama."

Health: "Musical performance is singing and dancing, with stories." ...

Finally, the teacher concluded that "musical is the abbreviation of popular musical in contemporary western countries." It is a new form of stage play that integrates opera, ballet and drama performance. "

The teacher asked again, "What are the three elements that make up a musical?"

The students answered in unison. Music, drama, dance

The teacher said, "Very good! So what is the relationship between the three? "

The student replied: "Drama is the foundation, music is the soul, and dance is an important form of expression."

Students can tell the three elements that make up a musical by watching it, and sum up the relationship between them. The purpose of the design here is to cultivate students' observation ability and generalization ability. )

The teacher further asked: "How did musicals develop? What are the artistic features of musicals? What are the similarities and differences between musicals and operas and traditional operas? What are the classic musicals and their artistic achievements? What's the difference between musical singing and traditional opera singing? What is the difference between a musical and an opera band? What are the forms of music themes?

I asked the students to search for information in groups after class, conduct inquiry learning, and show the results of inquiry in class and share them with you.

The purpose of this link is to let students learn and screen all kinds of materials when looking for information and answers. This is a learning process. In this process, students have mastered knowledge, improved their self-study ability and experienced the joy of success, thus cultivating their interest in learning music and improving their aesthetic and appreciation ability. )

Health: "This is the information I found on the Internet. Please have a look (projection display): musicals before the 1920s have different historical backgrounds in Britain and America. In America, they are mainly influenced by jazz, tap dancing, comedy and singing comedy. In Britain, musicals are more related to operetta and drama, especially the dramatic backgrounds of Shakespeare, Moliere and Ibsen, while dance is closer to ballet. "

"This is the music of several musicals I found, please enjoy it."

He showed you Snow Wolf Lake, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. After class, I asked him where he found it. He told me that Snow Wolf Lake was downloaded from the Internet, and Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables were found in the book shopping center. )

Health: "Do you know? Our favorite movie Doraemon is adapted from a musical. Let's sing the familiar edelweiss with the music. "

(Show the spectrum examples on the projection, and the whole class will sing together)

Health: "I found four great classical novels as musicals." Please see: (Projection) Cat, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables. Their artistic achievement is ... "

Health: "..." (omitted)

This lesson will show the results. The students enthusiastically stepped onto the platform to show the results of inquiry learning.

This is a class to show students' inquiry learning achievements, where everyone can share the joy of success, with the aim of cultivating students' research spirit and fully mobilizing their enthusiasm. "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish", and teachers are no longer just "teachers")

After class, the teacher summarizes and arranges students to create and rehearse the musical Les Miserables.

After the students' performance, there was a heated discussion: "Les Miserables performed by Liang Fan's group is the best!"

Health: "No! Li Rui's combination is good They are very generous, especially Liu, who shows Cosette's fear and sadness, but she has beautiful dreams in her heart. Moreover, her voice is beautiful. "

Health: "Cavit in Liang Fan is not arrogant enough, but a little gentle."

Student: "The boys in Liang Fan's group performed better than those in Li Rui's group. They sang "Listen! The people are singing "not out of tune, Li Rui's group is not allowed to change its tone, and the triplet is not allowed."

Health: "We were very nervous during the performance just now, and some arranged actions were not completed. Everyone is also very shy when performing. "

Student: "I think our group is good." Everyone is very serious. It is inevitable that there will be some mistakes when you perform on stage for the first time. Everyone should forgive us. "

Student: "Being an actor requires imagination. When I played Cosette, I imagined myself to be her. I have no food to eat and I have to do a lot of work. When I sing, I imagine and feel her mood. The teacher is right. Without imagination, you can't be a good actor and you can't play well. "

Health: "Liang Fan Group noticed the use of clothing."

Health: "The last song of the Liang Fan group sang the angry voice of the insurgents."

Health: "..." (omitted)

The students expressed their opinions on the performance of the two groups just now and made serious self-evaluation and mutual evaluation.

Its purpose is to enable students to gain drama performance experience in practical activities, show and exercise their performance ability, gain experience through self-evaluation and mutual evaluation, and improve their aesthetic ability and appreciation ability. )

Teacher summarizes this unit.

[Teaching reflection]

Reflecting on the teaching of "Walking into Musical" in this unit, the success lies in the fact that the teaching method has changed the past methods of teachers collecting materials, making courseware and preparing lessons carefully, and students passively accept it, but adopted open teaching, which greatly improved students' initiative and enthusiasm in learning music.

First of all, we should start with the topics that students are interested in, grasp the students' hearts and stimulate their interest in learning. Then by watching musicals-searching and collecting materials-creating performances, students' learning will rise from perceptual to rational, and then from rational to perceptual. In this process, students' learning is no longer passive, but active inquiry learning dominated by interest.

Emotional experience is gained in the process of music practice, and students' aesthetic ability is also improved through self-evaluation and mutual evaluation. It fully embodies the subjectivity of students. Although the students' performance is not very mature, they are very serious, which shows that there are exercises during recess. The students who lead the singing can pay attention to the mood of the song, grasp the character, and add dance movements appropriately in the singing. You can also pay attention to the use of clothes and props. The mutual evaluation between students is also objective and fair, giving opinions on the intonation and rhythm of singers, and also evaluating the performances of performers and the use of costume props. In the evaluation, everyone learns from each other, and the aesthetic ability is improved imperceptibly.

The disadvantage is that there are few domestic music materials, and students usually don't know and learn enough about them. In the future, we should pay attention to strengthening the study of national works.

[Expert Comment]

The teacher who teaches this course is a music teacher with rich teaching experience and comprehensive ability to control the classroom. The teaching content of this unit, Walking into Musical, is a learning field that middle school students like and can fully display their artistic talents in the optional module of high school music learning. The remarkable features of this case are: first, the teaching objectives that teachers can set according to the spirit of the new curriculum standard are practical. Second, start with music topics that students are interested in and create situations. Third, use artistic feelings to participate in practice and enhance personal experience. In order for students to fully understand the emotional expression of musicals, in addition to the expressive force and appeal of music art itself, they often have to rely on the means and characteristics of some sister arts, such as drama plot, vivid posture and rhythm of dance, semantic poetry of literature and so on. Fourth, the teaching process also pays attention to self-evaluation, mutual evaluation, process evaluation and research-based learning.

The teaching and learning of musical curriculum module can make every student feel a sense of accomplishment, realize the gradual formation and improvement of artistic ability, aesthetic consciousness and aesthetic emotion, and make students more enlightened and gain more. This is the highest expectation of every music teacher.