The role of digital media technology in promoting the reform of traditional curricula in higher music education

In the era of rapid development of science and technology, the traditional music education mode can no longer meet the needs of the times. Therefore, the study introduces digital media technology such as virtual reality and augmented reality in the reform of traditional music course teaching and proposes a higher music education method based on digital media technology, with a view to promoting the current reform process of higher music education courses. Taking instrumental music performance and music aesthetics as examples, we study the teaching effect of the music teaching methods proposed in this paper. In this way, the advantages of digital media technology in the reform of the traditional curriculum of higher music are explored. Before the teaching experiment, the experimental group and the control group had the same level of instrumental performance and music aesthetics, with no obvious difference. After the teaching experiment, the experimental group made more significant progress in instrumental performance and music aesthetics, while the post-test instrumental performance and music aesthetics of the control group remained similar to the results of the pre-test, and the p-value of the post-test results of the two groups in instrumental performance and music aesthetics were all less than 0.05. This paper’s method of higher music education based on digital media enhances the sense of scene of the music curriculum through VR and AR technologies, which is beneficial to the students’ learning. The sense of scene is conducive to students’ better sense of presence and immersion in learning, mobilizing students’ learning enthusiasm, changing the mode of traditional music teaching in which students passively receive knowledge, which has an important role to play in promoting students’ music development, and also provides insights for reforming the traditional music education mechanism.