Abstract

The article defines the contemporary priorities of choosing the teaching material for training the musician and educator. On the one hand, the material must meet the key requirements of the national education and upbringing, and, on the other hand, it must bring the requirements of the globalized community into conformity with its cultural artistic integration processes. The article deals with the issue of enriching the repertoire of the students of speciality 014. Secondary Education (Musical Art) on the subject “Piano as the Major Instrument” with the works for children and youth created by contemporary Ukrainian composers. During the last decades, a number of multi-genre interesting compositions for the piano have been included into Ukrainian teaching literature. They have been created by such professional composers, teachers-pianists and concert Jazz performers as S. Sukhoshcheyeva, Ia. Bobalik, L. Pratsyuk, E. Brylin, K. Maydenberg-Todorova, N. Lahodyuk, O. Saratskiy and others. Taking into consideration the tastes of the contemporary younger generation, authors actively turn to various types of jazz music, use modern music related vocabulary, resort to tone painting and special timber effects. The present research has considered the artistic peculiarities of compositions, whose studying can be useful for the future musical and pedagogical activity of students. There have been analyzed compositions by N. Lahodyuk, О. Lychkina, V. Manyk, A. Boyko, O. Nezhyhay, V. Telychko as examples of manifestation of figurative content by means of the contemporary composers’ language. The stylistic and compositional peculiarities of the selected pieces of music have been characterized. There has been highlighted the essential didactic role of contemporary Ukrainian composers’ works in teaching piano playing to future musicians and educators. It has been emphasized that learning compositions of various genres and styles contributes to broadening the students’ outlook, enriching their knowledge of contemporary Ukrainian music, acquainting them with the creative activity of little-known composers, and developing piano playing skills.

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