Initial Analysis of One's Ability to Appreciate Music Independently

One of the basic functions of aesthetics education is to cultivate one's ability to appreciate what is beautiful. It refers mainly to the cultivation of one's ability to appreciate the beautiful creatively. In aesthetic creation, man 's abilities concerned with aesthetics, including human sense, mood, imagination, association, will and evaluation, will combine organically in the experience of aesthetic sentiments. In music aesthetic education the individual's ability to appreciate music independently refers to his ability to think and create. The essay lists, analyzes and expounds various kinds of ability which one needs to appreciate music independently, which is hoped to provide some help for educators of music appreciation.