Why is music one of the best means of aesthetic education?

1. is beneficial to cultivate sentiment.

Excellent music works, whether vocal music works or instrumental music works, are the perfect unity of content and form, ideology and artistry, with strong artistic appeal and profound educational power, which can bring appreciation of artistic attainments and further enhance one's moral sentiments. Appreciators will be unconsciously infected by music images in the aesthetic atmosphere, naturally educated and enlightened, have optimistic thoughts and feelings, eliminate unhealthy and incorrect elements in ideology, gradually become noble, and then form a higher musical culture accomplishment and perfect personality.

2. It is conducive to improving aesthetic ability.

Excellent music works are the artistic wealth and humanistic essence of human beings, which can make aesthetic activities have a distinct tendency, guide the appreciator to establish a correct aesthetic view and eliminate the wrong aesthetic view, thus being educated and enlightened. The concept of beauty is closely related to people's moral concepts, which reflect people's world outlook, so when appreciating music, the appreciator is actually accepting a moral concept and values, which have far-reaching influence. Through in-depth and detailed analysis of the genre, theme, form, style, ideological content, composer's creative intention, specific expression techniques and many other aspects of the work, the appreciator gradually and accurately grasps the musical image of the work, understands the humanistic feelings in the work, learns the essence of music art, and develops the ability of aesthetic appreciation and discrimination.

3. It is beneficial to cultivate creative thinking.

Because music language often has certain fuzziness, seeking the opposite sex and uncertainty, it always leaves many gaps intentionally or unintentionally, so music appreciation needs artistic imagination for the appreciator to extend and ponder, otherwise it will be difficult to transform it into a concrete and sensible image world, let alone gain its realm from appreciation. Music appreciation not only needs artistic imagination, but also needs to develop artistic imagination. It is an active artistic re-creation activity, not a passive and negative perception. The process of music appreciation is a process of continuous exploration and creation. In this process, the way of thinking mainly relies on the stored knowledge and experience, as well as the use of thinking means such as association and imagination, to deeply feel, experience and create the connotation of music works, so that the appreciator's intelligence can be developed and his thinking can be more flexible and agile, thus cultivating creative thinking.