STUDYING SICHUAN FOLK SONG FOR CONSTRUCTING SICHUAN FOLK CHORUS SONGBOOK FOR TEACHING SICHUAN INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHOIR, SICHUAN PROVINCE
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The research topic is “Studying Sichuan Folk Song for Constructing Sichuan Folk Chorus Songbook for Teaching Sichuan International Children's Choir, Sichuan Province” The purposes of this study are (1) To study Sichuan Folk Songs. (2) To construct a Sichuan folk chorus songbook for the Children's choir. (3) Teaching experimental group by using the Sichuan folk chorus songbook. (4) Evaluate teaching effectiveness. This study is a mixed-method study. Qualitative research was conducted through interviews with three key informants. The respondents were 30 primary school students from China's Sichuan International Children's Choir. The sample group consisted of 6 primary school students from Grades 2 to 6. The results show that: (1) The children's chorus set of Sichuan folk songs has significant benefits to students in the teaching of children's chorus. The Songbook can provide the representative folk songs of Sichuan's multi-ethnic groups, and specially invited composers to compose new, suitable for children to sing chorus versions. National dialect phonetic notes and interpretation can improve students' understanding and singing level of Sichuan folk song chorus. (2) The Children's Chorus Songbook of Sichuan folk songs is divided into three parts, with a total of 6 songs. The first part is the Sichuan Han folk song chorus 2, the second part is the Sichuan Miao folk song chorus 2, and the third part is the Sichuan Yi folk song chorus 2. (3) The teaching time is 15 weeks, with two classes per week and 120 minutes each class. formative tests are conducted on the samples after each class. (4) The comparison results of the formative test and summative test show that the maximum value is 5.31 and the minimum value is 3.81. The value added of data was more than 4 in 4, and the value added of data was more than 5 in 2.
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