器乐欣赏是初中音乐教学的重要组成部分。由于初中生对音乐的感受、理解能力还较弱,往往仅凭感官的感受来理解音乐。因此,在初中器乐欣赏教学中如何引领学生有效参与聆听成为音乐教师较为关注的一个问题。在目前的初中器乐欣赏教学中存在着两种倾向。第一种倾向是,教师讲得太多,学生因缺乏探索及挑战的体验而对聆听音乐失去兴趣。第二种倾向是,教师缺乏有效地引领,学生因听不懂而对聆听音乐失去信心。美国著名的音乐教育家艾伦·科普兰说得好:“你要理解音乐,再没有比倾听音乐更重要了。”因此,在 Instrumental music appreciation is an important part of junior high school music teaching. As junior high school students feel the music, understanding ability is still weak, often only sensory experience to understand music. Therefore, how to lead students to effectively participate in the teaching of junior high school instrumental music to become a music teacher is more concerned about a problem. There are two tendencies in the current teaching of junior high school instrumental enjoyment. The first is that teachers put too much stress on students’ lack of interest in listening to music due to their lack of exploration and challenge experience. The second tendency is that teachers lack effective leadership and students lose confidence in listening to music because they do not understand it. Ellen Copeland, a famous American music educator, put it well: “You have to understand music, no more important than listening to music.” "