Communication, Cognition and Experience: Three Basic Dimensions of Reviewing Music Education Process

Music education whose core is appreciating beauty embodies three basic dimension: communication, cognition and experience. As the basis of music education, communication is established during the process of teaching where teacher and students who share the same subjectivity as human being using the same teaching material and communicate based on the principle of equality. Cognition is manifested in two aspects: the mastery of music knowledge and skills; understanding and identification of the objective world reflected by the art of music through its aesthetic cognition function. Experience is the process in which the appreciators positively objectifies the beauty of music to stimulate the emotional experience in the form of sensibility, which is manifested as the unity of the subject's purpose and perceptual image. The communication of subjectivity includes the subject’s emotional experience of music works and his cognition of the objective world reflected by those music works. The cognition of music works is based on the communication of subjectivity and aims at achieving emotion and experience. And during the process of subjectivity communication, through aesthetic cognition, emotion and experience will enable self-aesthetic value to be generated, emotion to be internalized and life to be enriched. 交往、认知、体验:审视音乐教育过程的三个基本维度