王国维音乐教育观对“乐教”思想的继承与新解

Wang Guowei’s View on Music Education:Succession and Renewed Interpretation to“Yue Jiao”Tradition

王国维重视音乐教育,他的音乐教育观体现了培养“完全之人物”的时代思潮。他继承了儒家以乐教立人的传统,并结合叔本华哲学对纯粹“美术”价值的关注,强调音乐教育的审美属性,提倡音乐的天然之美,对“乐教”作出新解。针对教育界新兴的“学堂乐歌”课程,他以小学校“唱歌科”为例,指出音乐教育具有增进知识、调和情感、提振道德的作用。王国维的音乐教育观,为传统“乐教”思想赋予了具有时代意义的新内涵。

Wang Guowei attaches great importance to music education.His view on music education reflects the trend of cultivating“complete figures”of the times.He inherits the Confucian tradition of educating people through music(Yue Jiao).Influenced by Schopenhauer’s philosophy which focuses on the pure value of“art”,he emphasizes the aesthetic attributes of music education,and thus provides a new interpretation to“Yue Jiao”.In the case of emerging“school songs”in education,Wang Guowei takes singing course at primary school as an example to point out the function of music education in enhancing knowledge,harmonizing emotion and boosting morality.Wang Guowei’s view on music education has endowed traditional“Yue Jiao”with new meanings of the times.