What is Musical Knowledge? Piano Students’Perceptions of Musical Knowledge and Musical Performance in a Chinese Context

Abstract

This essay focuses on reflections on the value of different types of musical knowledge, important forms of knowledge and models of knowledge, and key activities in performance. In these questions, I will focus on what musical knowledge is, what it brings to the performer, and what challenges we face from a professional musician’s point of view, in addition to mastering a large number of propositions or knowledge? As well as exploring the pros and cons of a certain model of music education in China. What should learners and pedagogues do? What lessons can we learn from this as teachers, and what can we learn as students.