“One-Voice Collective-Distributed Singing” as a Necessary Attribute of the Initial Stages of Teaching Children of Primary School Age Choral Singing

• Main Author: Elena V. Nikolaeva
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Moscow Pedagogical State University, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education 2019-09-01
• Series: Музыкальное искусство и образование
• Subjects: music; general musical education; music lesson; choral singing; one-voice collective-distributed singing
• Online Access: http://musart-edu.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019-3-163.pdf

The write incentive for this article was the desire to characterize the pedagogical potential of the method “One-Voice Collective-Distributed Singing” at the initial stages of training children of primary school age choral performance. Its essence is connected with a specific approach to learning and playing melodies of songs or vocal choral exercises. In the exercises, a sequential transmission / reception of the melodic line from one singer to another / another or from one group of singers to another is provided. The article reveals the author’s position, according to that this method is considered as a special kind of role-playing singing. At the initial stage of training in choral performance, its use (i) creates the favorable conditions for the implementation of an individual-personal approach to students in the process of vocal-choral activity, (ii) contributes to their mastery of vocal, (iii) effectively prepares children for intonationally pure and expressive intonation of the “choral part” performed by them, (iv) contributes to their experience in tracking the melodic line as a dialogue / polylogue of several choral parts, each of which brings new colors. This kind of choral performance stimulates the preparation of children for the development of polyphonic singing.