Research on Curriculum Integration and Teaching Innovation of Chinese Folk Regional Music Elements in University Vocal Music Education
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Chinese folk regional music carries profound cultural heritage and distinctive artistic value. Its systematic integration into university vocal music education helps preserve national music traditions within a modern academic framework and enhances students’ artistic literacy through multilayered understanding of regional heritage. At present, the integration of folk regional music elements into university vocal music curricula faces theoretical deficiencies, limited teaching methods, and insufficient practical implementation. Based on cultural ecology and constructivist theories, this study constructs a regional music-resource development pathway and a multidimensional curriculum-integration model, and proposes a dual-track teaching mode combining living inheritance and institutional cultivation. Through quasi-experimental validation, the model significantly improves students’ understanding depth and performance ability in national vocal music (p < 0.05). Cultural Identity Scale scores increase from 4.2 to 5.7 on a seven-point scale, indicating meaningful growth in cultural belonging and commitment to folk-music preservation. Although the core subject is vocal education, the curriculum design also provides an instructive model for wave-based auditory training, signal perception, and interdisciplinary communication courses in engineering fields, including acoustics and electromagnetics. The research offers theoretical support and practical paradigms for the localized development of university vocal music education and the contemporary inheritance of Chinese vocal arts.
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