当代音乐审美教育理念与传统的美育观念相比又具有了许多崭新的内涵。传统美育的本质是情感教育。现今,包括人文学科在内的科学发展总的特点呈现为既高度分化,又高度综合的趋势,我们从教育学和心理学的发展来看,美国当代教育家加德纳提出的“多元”智能理论,已把音乐智能提高到与语言、逻辑智能同等重要的地位,从而使音乐教育在教育中具有了从未有过的重要作用。 Compared with the traditional concept of aesthetic education, the concept of contemporary aesthetic music education has many new connotations. The essence of traditional aesthetic education is emotional education. Nowadays, the general characteristics of the scientific development, including humanities, present a tendency of being both highly differentiated and highly integrated. According to the development of pedagogy and psychology, Gardner, a contemporary American educator, “The theory of intelligence has raised musical intelligence to an equally important position as language and logic intelligence, so that music education has never had an important role in education.”