Choral education is an essential component of the music curriculum in the compulsory education stage. This paper conducts a comparative study on the development history, curriculum standards, teacher education, teaching materials, and current teaching practices of choral education in primary and secondary schools between China and the United States. The study aims to summarize and induce experiences and measures that are beneficial to the development of choral education in Chinese primary and secondary schools, hoping to provide some reference and lessons for the improvement of the quality of choral education in Chinese primary and secondary schools.

Zhu Bingzhou. Comparative Study of Choral Education in Chinese and American Primary and Secondary Schools. Frontiers in Art Research (2024) Vol. 6, Issue 9: 58-66. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2024.060911.

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