Constructing the Teaching Guidebook for Vocal Music Base on Bloom’s Taxonomy for Teaching Vocal Music Students at First Year Education, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, China

Abstract

          Since 1949, Chinese colleges and universities have shouldered the main task of cultivating professional vocal music talents. The purposes of the study were 1) To study the teaching vocal music based on Bloom's taxonomy from the experts. 2) To construct the teaching guidebook for vocal music based on Bloom's taxonomy for teaching first year students at Shenyang Conservatory of Music. 3) To experiment the guidebook for vocal music based on Bloom's taxonomy by teaching first year students at Shenyang Conservatory of Music. 4) To evaluate the guidebook for vocal music based on Bloom's taxonomy by teaching first year students at Shenyang Conservatory of Music. The research methodology was mixed method. In the experimental research, 40 freshmen majoring in vocal music education in Shenyang Conservatory of music as the research sample. In addition to the student survey. The sample was 20 freshmen majoring in vocal music education in Shenyang Conservatory of Music were randomly selected as research samples. The qualitative research conducted by interview 5 key informants.
          The research findings were 1) the higher the level of development of various fields, the more obvious and strong their integration and complementarity. This reminds us that vocal music teachers should use and refer to the taxonomic design course of educational objectives. 2) On the premise of widely soliciting experts' opinions, the course teaching part of the vocal music teaching guide is compiled, which includes the vocal music teaching under Bloom's construction and the singing analysis of 15 art songs. 3) Twenty students majoring in vocal music and three vocal music teachers volunteered to participate in this study, and were willing to use the teaching guide to study and teach for 16 hours in a semester. 4) The researchers tested 20 students majoring in vocal music performance in Shenyang Conservatory of music, tested the students' academic performance before and after learning, and compared the improvement of students' learning efficiency and teachers' teaching effect after vocal music teachers used teaching guidebook.