With the vigorous development of China's education in recent years, colleges and universities should not only strengthen the cultivation of students' professional knowledge, but also cultivate their comprehensive quality and skills, so as to cultivate excellent talents with all-round development of morality, intelligence, sports, beauty and labor. Music, as an important part of higher education, is a basic course to improve students' music literacy and aesthetic ability, College teachers should actively carry out education and guidance. Music education is an indispensable type of education in various courses in Colleges and universities, which plays an indispensable role in the ideological and political education of college students. The rational use of music education in the ideological and political education of college students is not only the internal need of talent training in the new era, but also an effective path for the artistic and modern development of Ideological and political education of college students.