MUSIC EDUCATION IN RUSSIA: RETROSPECTIVE AND FORECAST (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIAL OF THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE HISTORY OF MUSIC EDUCATION)

Abstract

The article analyzes the results of Russia's largest scientific and practical event dedicated to music education: the seventh session of the Scientific Council on the problems of the history of music education, held in Vologda on April 23-26, 2019. The program of the session included the international scientific conference “Preparing of a music teacher: Historical Experience, Problems, Prospects”, the Russian Scientific Seminar and the All-Russian Symposium. The results of the session, which brought together more than 70 leading researchers in the history of music education in Russia and the near abroad, are summarized in key areas. A retrospective analysis of the activities of music and pedagogical faculties of pedagogical universities, operating in the country since 1959 and practically eliminated at present, is considered as the leading theme. The results in other areas of the session are also generalized: the development of the history of music education as a field of historical, pedagogical and musicological knowledge; history of vocational and school music education. Crisis phenomena in music-pedagogical education are marked.