To sum up, music is a kind of elegant art that can transmit emotion, spread energy and touch people's hearts. Under the background of the new curriculum, high school music appreciation class should pay attention to the cultivation of students' music quality, cultivate students' perception and appreciation ability of music, and pass on the spirit of music. However, there are still some problems in the actual teaching process at this stage, which requires educators to constantly update and innovate their own teaching modes and methods, on the basis of "keeping pace with the times", create a good teaching atmosphere with a new teaching concept, play the role of multimedia and other tools, and help students understand abstract things. At the same time, teachers should constantly strengthen their own professional knowledge. Only when they have a full grasp of the teaching content, can they learn and use flexibly, and better impart the knowledge to the students. In the process of teaching, we should try our best to combine a variety of teaching methods, enrich the classroom content, make the classroom atmosphere lively and interesting, so as to improve the effectiveness of music appreciation class in high school.The application of post research teaching in music teaching of senior high schoolSource: original paper added on: December 5, 2019Abstract: in high school music teaching, the use of post research teaching method plays an important role in improving students' music learning ability, promoting students' understanding of music knowledge and cultivating students' music literacy. This paper mainly discusses the application of post research teaching in music teaching in senior high school from the aspects of using research to cultivate students' learning awareness, using research to understand students' individual differences, using post teaching to expand students' music understanding, and using post teaching to strengthen the interaction between teachers and students.Key words: post research teaching, high school music, applicationIt is very important for students to apply post-graduate teaching to music teaching in senior high school. It can not only promote students' understanding of music knowledge, but also enable students to understand the differences in music learning between each other. Teachers can conduct targeted teaching by observing students' research situation, so that they can get twice the result with half the effort.I. using research to cultivate students' learning awarenessIn high school music teaching, teachers can cultivate students' learning awareness through research. Research is to learn first. Teachers can let students first understand the music knowledge to be learned in the music course, and let students learn first, so as to cultivate students' learning awareness. In the process of their own research and learning, students can first understand some simple knowledge in the music course. When the teacher explains the content of the course in detail, students can understand more in-depth music knowledge.