音乐是不假任何外力，直接沁人心脾的最纯的感情的火焰；它是从口吸入的空气，它是生命的血管中流通着的血液。
Music is the fire of the purest emotion that permeates the heart directly, without any external force; it is the air that is inhaled from the mouth, the blood that circulates in the veins of life.
——（匈）李斯特/Franz Liszt
Music
美好的音乐是一剂良药，可以抚慰人心，传递温暖，播种快乐。在疫情防控的特殊时期，枫华师生教学的主阵地从教室换到了屏幕前，音乐课，作为一门美育课程，在学生们疫情居家学习期间起着举足轻重的作用。
As a great healer, music calms and inspires,it brings warmth and happiness to everyone. During this special time, as learning and teaching has transferred online, the music lessons in front of a computer screen has so far played an important role to bring students fun, recreation, and a lot of happiness!
初中部线上音乐课以音乐欣赏和体验为主，注重学生对音乐的整体感受，引导学生进一步扩展认知领域和音乐视野，在丰富学生居家生活的同时也能缓解紧张的学习气氛。
The essence of the online music lessons of Sino-Canada’s Junior High School is for students to enjoy, to experience, and to be immersed in the world of music and be inspired by its beauty. The power of music not only opens the heart of the students, but it also helps them to rewind. It adds joy to students’ daily lives and expands the horizon of the creativity and abstract thinking.
课堂内容主要分为两部分，欣赏部分为之前教学的扩展延伸，包括基础乐理知识、课本上的音乐知识讲解等；而体验部分，除了让学生能自由讨论、分享和演唱自己喜欢的歌曲之外，还增加了特色杯子舞课程，在锻炼了学生节奏感的同时，也训练到了手脑协调性，并且它比乐谱要简单易学，一定程度上让学生“从做中学，从乐中学”，让孩子们能发现身边无处不在的舞蹈与音乐。
A typical online music lesson is divided into two parts. The first part is the teaching and reviewing of music theory and music history.The second part is music appreciation.As research shows, the best way to make a music lesson engaging is to combine the teaching of theory with hands-on experiences.For this typical reason, our teachers have included free discussion, sharing, and group singing into the lessons.The cup-dance has become anoutstanding activity since it not only reinforces students’ understanding of rhythms, it also helps with the development of the hand & brain coordination.It is a much more engaging activity compared with learning to read the music notes. It reinforces the concept of learning by doing and this teaching procedure focuses on bringing joy and inspiration to all the students using music as a media.
音乐的力量，是语言、文字和影像无法替代的，它是上天赐予我们的礼物，愿每个人都可以享受音乐带来的快乐。疫情的阴霾终会散去，期待和孩子们在枫华校园相见。
The power of music cannot be replaced by any languages, words, or images. It’s a great gift of human beings given by the nature, and we truly hope that our online music lessons touchthe heart and the soul of all our students and give them positive energy to stay strong and happy! We are looking forward to the day that we can sing, dance, and perform with our students again in the campus to celebrate and to embrace the wonderful future.
