Through combing the literature of music history research in local universities, this paper clarifies the current teaching situation of music history, and probes into the innovative principles and ideas of music history course in universities. Taking a knowledge point in the chapters of the course as an example, this paper carries out the design of mixed teaching, and expounds the implementation of mixed teaching mode in the teaching process. It probes into the development of mixed teaching mode from the aspects of teaching process, teaching evaluation and teaching effect, and further reviews the mode with the help of the students' questionnaire results, so as to improve the teaching quality of the course of music history.