FORMATION IN CHINESE STUDENTS OF EUROPEAN MUSIC CULTURE BASED ON A STYLE APPROACH

Abstract

The relevance of the problem considered in the article is due to the focus of music education in modern China on the integration of unique national traditions with the experience of European music pedagogy. The article proves that the study of European music by students of pedagogical universities in China is productive when relying on a stylistic approach that allows to reveal in the pedagogical process the semantics of musical intonations different from the Chinese musical tradition. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the style approach as a methodological basis for the formation of ideas about European musical culture among Chinese students. The article used research methods such as the study and analysis of literature: generalization of the experience of Chinese thinkers in the field of philosophy of music and research of Russian art critics and aesthetics in matters of musical style. Scientific novelty consists in identifying and substantiating, within the framework of the stylistic approach, a set of methods aimed at understanding by students the connection between musical phenomena and the ideological values of a particular era (or the work of an individual artist). The method of modeling the style context is used for a kind of “optimization” of the processes carried out in the real experience of a person who intuitively assimilates the stylistic models of culture based on the perception of many different artistic phenomena of the same direction. The method of identifying the semantic dominants of the artistic style is aimed at building in the minds of students a variety of artistic and stylistic manifestations into a single picture of the world – a stylistic concept. The method of genre-style analysis is aimed at mastering genre signs as meaningful and expressive complexes. The method of analyzing the intonational form of a musical work is aimed at understanding the psychological foundations of musical composition (using techniques related to the involvement of students in practical activities in the perception of the emotional-figurative content of music). The practical novelty consists in determining the criteria and indicators of the formation of students’ ideas about European musical culture, conducting experimental research work and analyzing its results. It was revealed that the use of the style approach and the methods identified within it in working with Chinese students contributed to an increase in the level of formation of their ideas about European musical culture, which was reflected in the enrichment of their intonational-figurative baggage, the expansion of ideas about the means of expression in the music of the European tradition, development of interest and value attitudes towards European musical culture.