Children's dance music and children's dance and other performing arts, however, with the children's dance performance has become a systematic comparison, children's dance music selection research is quite weak, it is a cross-discipline of music and dance. In the past, children's dance music abroad was mostly limited to a certain historical stage or a certain type of works by a certain composer. Domestic in recent years on children's dance music selection also, but most of the shallow, not to talk about in-depth and systematic. Through years of practice and research we have conducted some research and exploration of children's dance music selection.
One, children's dance music selection should pay attention to the playfulness
In the children's dance selection of musical themes from the children's actual life to find. The musical phrase should be simple, the tune should be clear, so that it is moving, beautiful, easy to remember. On the other hand, there should be action, to standardize the rhythm of the dance to provide vivid musical material. Musical tunes should be simple, smooth, melodious, rhythmic, square in structure, not too wide in range, action or storytelling, and suitable for multiple repetitions to provide accurate musical images for dance creation. If there is a contrasting section (e.g. fast and lively, slow and lyrical), the contrast should be sharp. The beginning and end of the music should be more pronounced so that children can easily distinguish them and can begin and end the movement in time. Children's dance is an advanced form of children's games, only vivid, interesting music children love to dance, love to see, in order to reach the point of a hundred dance, a hundred look is not annoying. Therefore, when considering the subject matter of children's dance music, we should choose what children are familiar with, what they love, and what has a certain positive significance, which can be expressed in dance and reflect the children's game life. Children must be able to see and understand the meaning of it, so that young actors can perform well and the audience can accept it. Children of different ages have different physiological and psychological characteristics, different favorites and things they care about. This gives us the choice of children's dance music theme, provides a very wide range of space. But "playfulness" is very important.
The selection of children's dance music should pay attention to the colorfulness
The general public tends to think that the Chinese style of music and children's music should be closer to the Chinese children, and therefore it is more likely to be loved by the Chinese children. In fact, this understanding is not scientific. A newborn baby's criteria for choosing music is mainly based on physiological comfort. As the child grows up, the main music styles in the acquired environment gradually become familiar to the child, and at the same time are gradually loved by the child. The reason why children's music is increasingly loved by children is not only because its style is gradually familiar to children, but also because its psychological and socio-cultural connotations have gradually gained the children's understanding, and the understanding of love is a more advanced kind of favorite emotion that goes beyond the sense of comfort, familiarity and satisfaction. As children continue to grow, some begin to lose their attraction to musical styles that have become overly familiar. On the contrary, exotic styles of music and adult music, which we tend to think of as far away from children, begin to become the objects of children's conscious pursuit due to their moderate strangeness, novelty and challenge. According to this law, when we choose music for children's dance, we should choose foreign music which is easy, pleasant, not too stimulating and repetitive, and the style can be more casual, and it is better to choose more classical music works. Then the proportion of children's music and general Chinese-style music can be gradually increased, so that children have ample opportunities to familiarize themselves with and love these types of music. Then gradually add Chinese music of different styles with obvious national personalities. Finally, exotic styles of music with obvious regional and national personalities, as well as a small amount of adult music with a healthy and upward mood, can be selected as the music for rhythmic activities.
such as folk dance music. This kind of music is generally very simple and simple, and beautiful and good dance. Such as China's Anhui flower-drum lantern music, Northeast China's two-people music and various ethnic minority dance music. And then the Russian composer Li Yadovsky based on the national folk dance music created by the light music works "I dance with the little mosquitoes" and so on. In addition, you can choose Chinese and foreign composers to create dance music and light music works based on folk music of various countries. This kind of music generally has the basic advantages of folk dance music, and the structure is clear and easy to teach according to the needs of excerpts and reorganization, some of which can even be used directly. Such as Chinese adult dance music "red silk dance" segment, Chinese light music "catching flowers", foreign light music "clarinet polka", "Express Train Polka", "whistles and puppies", foreign ballet fragment "plucked strings", "Spanish bullfighting dance" and so on. There are also songs for children or adults. This kind of song often refers to the role of the mass media, especially television, has formed a diffuse influence, healthy and has a potential educational value of that part of the work. Such as "Song and Smile", the theme song of the movie "Huang Feihong", "Boys should be strong" and so on. In the field of children's songs, there are a large number of children's songs loved by children, which have been sung among children for a long time, are catchy and enduring, and have a broad mass base. For children's dance music orientation to expand a very convenient way. The selection of children's songs as children's dance music, first of all, to meet the requirements of the dance content, so that the two are united with each other, water and milk blending. In the selection of children's songs, we must pay attention to not stay in the original copy of the state, must be in accordance with the requirements of the dance, adaptation and development, injecting new artistic imagination, reveal a new artistic style, access to new artistic vitality.