How to make high school students enjoy symphonic music is an aesthetic activity. Gorky said: "In essence, people are artists. No matter where he is, he always wants to bring beauty to his life. " With the improvement of living standards and the popularity of TV media, people's ability to appreciate music is also constantly improving. Nowadays, pop music and rock music can no longer meet people's demand for music appreciation, and symphony, as an elegant and fashionable art, is gradually entering people's lives. Symphony appreciation, as an important part of high school music teaching, is an important way and means to cultivate students' interest in music, cultivate their sense of music, enrich their emotions, cultivate their sentiments and improve their personality. How to make high school students step into the elegant music hall, appreciate the symphony and understand it? In the teaching practice in recent years, I try my best to combine the actual situation of students, try my best to guide and explore, and gradually make students enter the symphony. Let me introduce my practice of guiding students. First, guide students to understand the configuration of the symphony orchestra and the emotions expressed by musical instruments. The symphony orchestra is divided into four groups: the string instrument group includes violin, viola, cello and double bass; Woodwind instrument group includes flute, piccolo, oboe, clarinet and bassoon; The brass instrument group includes horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba; Percussion instruments include timpani, cymbals, cymbals, triangles, drums, pianos and harps. It is easy to understand the instruments in a symphony orchestra, but it is difficult to master the timbre of each instrument and the emotions expressed by the instrument. Because it is difficult to hear the timbre of musical instruments. When I take my students to listen to musical instruments, I always choose the world famous music that represents each instrument. For example, when I introduced the cello, I chose the famous cello song Goose. When introducing violin, choose Liang Zhu; Listen and distinguish repeatedly, and explain the special points of timbre repeatedly, so that students can remember the timbre of musical instruments through a piece of music. When introducing the composition of the band, I divided the class into four groups, and each three people represented a musical instrument. String group and woodwind group are represented by girls because of their beautiful, soft, elegant and expressive timbre, while brass group is represented by boys because of their full, brilliant and masculine timbre. Percussion music, though simple in timbre, some sounds are not even musical, but it plays a decisive role in rendering the musical atmosphere, so it is represented by several musical geniuses with great personality. In this way, when I use multimedia to show pictures of musical instruments at a fast speed, students in good groups will scramble to stand up and act as the musical instruments they represent. After a class, students not only mastered the band configuration and the emotions expressed by various musical instruments, but also improved their interest in music appreciation, and the classroom atmosphere was very active. Second, guide students to understand the composer and his life, the background of composition and the style of his works. Like literary works, every symphony is the result of the composer's painstaking creation, which embodies the composer's deep feelings about life, or nostalgia for the past, or thinking about the present, or expectations for the outside world. If you really want to understand the mystery of a symphony, you will lose your appreciation if you don't know the life story of the creator, the background of the times and the characteristics of the work. In order for students to truly understand a work, they must know something about it before they formally appreciate it. For example, Beethoven's fifth symphony destiny, 1. Before enjoying it, let's tell the students that Beethoven (1770- 1827) was a German composer. The last representative of Vienna classical music school. Early life is unfortunate. At that time, the French feudal society was very dark and the people were deeply oppressed. At the age of 28, he was deaf again, and his passionate lover, Countess Julietta Ziati, left him because of her family background and became the Countess of Garenburg. A series of mental blows put Beethoven on the brink of death. After experiencing great pain, he gradually formed a belief that only art can bring him joy and only creation can overcome fate. As he famously said, "I despise my fate? I will hold the fate by the throat, it can't beat me. Ah! How wonderful it is to live, I want to live a thousand times. " When the challenge of fate knocks at the door, the inner storm makes him feel terrible and uneasy, but the potential strong belief only allows him to fight against fate and does not allow him to succumb to the pressure of fate and environment. Only by conquering ourselves and mastering ourselves can we stand up from the predicament, from darkness to light, and from struggle to victory.