A teacher says music education in schools has kind of turned into amusement. Classroom lessons focus heavily on pop while understanding the classic (古典的) art form and its history should be paid attention to.
Professor Walker, a professor in music and music education at the University or NSW, says students are missing out on an important part of the culture heritage (遗产) because they fail to study classical music, as the little music that children learn at school is mainly pop. The lack (缺乏) of music teaching is serious, especially in government schools where there are not enough specialist (专家) music teachers.
“I’m not against pop music, but it’s very simple, and not difficult either to play or to sing,” Professor Walker says, “But classical music is challenging and although it is part of Australia’s culture heritage, most children learn it only through Hollywood films.”
“At least children ought to know what’s happening in Western culture. It’s part of culture heritage,” he says. “Asian students know more about Western classic music than most children in the West.”
Professor Walker says no school curriculum (课程) in the Australia lists a piece of music that children should study.
“This lack of standard texts means that some rock children can be brought up totally on western classic music, others on Elvis Presley, or on any music the teacher wants to teach. The situation should be changed as soon as possible,” he says.
56. What’s the problem in music education in Australia according to the passage?
A.Children know nothing about their culture heritage. |
B.Classical music education isn’t valued in schools. |
C.Pop music is simple and not difficult to play and sing. |
D.Australia schools need more specialist music teachers. |
57. According to Professor Walker, students should study classical music because it is ________.
A.part of culture heritage | B.good for their growing up |
C.difficult to play and sing | D.popular only in Asia |
58. From the last paragraph, we can learn that ________.
A.music teachers should teach anything that they like |
B.most children today are brought up by their music teachers |
C.music teachers shouldn’t teach the music of Elvis Presley at all |
D.children’s music education today depends on their teacher’s taste |