Arts Studies and Criticism

With the development of the times and the reform of educational concepts, higher education in music faces the real challenge of transforming from traditional teaching models to modern, informational, and diversified methods. Traditional music teaching methods emphasize the inheritance of skills, emotional cultivation, and technical reproduction, with strong cultural accumulation and historical continuity; while modern teaching methods focus more on the student's subjectivity, the use of technological tools, and global perspectives, emphasizing individual expression and interdisciplinary integration. Currently, universities still face multiple issues in the process of integrating these two teaching models, such as conflicts in teaching philosophies, imbalanced resource allocation, fragmented curriculum structures, and structural shortcomings in faculty abilities. This paper analyzes the basic characteristics and differences between traditional and modern music teaching methods, identifies the main barriers in the integration process of higher music education, and proposes strategies for optimizing the curriculum system, restructuring faculty capabilities, and improving the evaluation mechanism. These suggestions aim to provide practical references for the reform of music education in universities.