Modern children’s choral art of Ukraine and China: presentation of masters’ experience (Serhiy Prokopov – Yang Hongnian)

Abstract

Statement of the problem. The information space of the 21st century, including the cultural and educational areas, is characterized by tendencies towards synthesis and integration. So, modern children’s choral art of Ukraine and China appears as an art of cultural dialogue, in the process of which the spiritual values of a new type of a person are forming. The relevance of this study is determined by the need for analytical comparison and comprehension in the scientific discourse of the principles of creative activity of the leading representatives of the both cultural traditions in the field of children’s choral art. Despite the wide range of scientific works in the sphere of choral art, both, the historical and theoretical basis of contemporary children’s choral pedagogy in Ukraine and China, and its leading trends in nowadays remains relevant and requires special research. Objectives, methods and novelty of the research. The purpose of the article is to highlight the scientific, practical and pedagogical achievements of outstanding masters of modern children’s choral art of Ukraine and China, Serhiy Prokopov and Yang Hongnian. For the first time a comparative analysis of the scientific-practical and pedagogical experience of these outstanding masters is represented. The methods оf analysis and systematization, comparative, historical and culturological approach were attracted to research. Research results and conclusion. Summarizing the results of the analysis of the scientific, practical and pedagogical works of two famous masters of children’s choral performance of Ukraine and China, Serhiy Prokopov and Yang Hongnian, we noted that their methodological approaches are focused on the development of individual vocal and choral skills (singing arrangement, singing breathing, attack of sound, sound management, diction, articulation, timbre of the voice); on the formation of musical-auditory ideas (harmonic sense, coordination of hearing and voice, etc.); mastering the skills of choral singing (singing in unison and polyphony, rhythmic synchronicity, ensemble diction, etc.); on the development of emotional and figurative perception and thinking in children. Our research gives reasons to assert that the theoretical principles of two well-known choral conductors of modern children’s choral performances in Ukraine and China are based on the same priority approaches to choral pedagogy: humanistic, person-oriented, multicultural, comparative, systemic. The main factors that should be taken into account in the process of comparative analysis of the basic theoretical concepts of the both masters are the specifics of their national mentality determined by sociohistorical, cultural and educational conditions.