Research on the"Hardware"Construction Strategy of Percussion Major in Music Colleges
In the music and art family,percussion music is relatively niche compared to keyboard music,orchestral music,and string music.Since the 1960s,several music schools in China have established percussion as an independent major.Through continuous development,the percussion profession now covers multiple directions such as ethnic percussion,Western percussion,and popular percussion,and has cultivated a large number of outstanding percussion talents.It can be said that music schools are undoubtedly the main battlefield for cultivating Chinese percussion talents.How to find its own direction in the comprehensive and in-depth reform of higher education has become the key to its future development.We should face up to a series of problems such as insufficient comprehensive quality of students,lack of practical ability,and low professional employment rate.It is necessary to establish a new development goal of"hardware",namely"gold majors,gold courses,gold teachers,gold textbooks,and gold bases",and comprehensively promote the"big reform"of the profession with the key teaching elements of"small cuts",driving the percussion major of music colleges and universities to a new level in the new era.