儿童音乐包括儿童歌曲、儿童歌舞、儿童歌舞剧、儿童器乐等多种体裁形式。相比较而言,儿童歌曲以其形式精炼、塑造音乐形象生动,容易被儿童理解和接受,易普及、推广等特点,在儿童音乐中占据主要地位。我国儿童音乐创作萌生于20世纪初兴起的“学堂乐歌”运动,并以学堂乐歌形式为开端,歌曲音乐发展为主线,在中国近百年现代音乐历史发展中跌宕 Children’s music, including children’s songs, children’s song and dance, children’s musicals, children’s instrumental music and other genres. Comparatively speaking, children’s songs are refined in their form, vividly shaped by music, easy to be understood and accepted by children, easy to popularize and popularized, and occupy the main position in children’s music. China’s children’s music creation started at the beginning of the 20th century “school song ” movement, and the school song form as the beginning, the development of song music as the main line, in the past hundred years of modern music history in China ups and downs