UPDATING METHODS OF MUSICAL EDUCATION IN FUTURE MUSIC TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN ART EDUCATION INFORMATIZATION

• Main Author: Lyudmila Gavrilova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Donbas State Pedagogical University 2016-11-01
• Series: Profesìonalìzm Pedagoga: Teoretičnì j Metodičnì Aspekti
• Subjects: art education; information and communication technologies; the future music teachers; methods of musical education; visualization
• Online Access: http://pptma.dn.ua/files/2016/4/2.%20Gavrilova_S.14-24.pdf

The introduction of ICT in future music teachers’ training – one of the modern and future upgrade ways of art education. The author analyses the processes of updating methods of musical training and education, creating new ones as a result of interaction of art education with the forms and methods of pedagogical computer technologies. The aim of the article is giving the author’s view of the updating methods of future music teachers’ musical education and suggesting visualization as a kind of problem-search methods which gives the opportunity to reveal the music teachers’ creativity using information and communication technologies. Methods of teaching music are differentiated according to various criteria; reflect the specifics of music art and musical activities and carry out certain tasks of developing musical abilities, musical and analytical skills, musical thinking. The most famous methods among them are: method of observing music; method of contrast comparing compositions and assimilation of the music character; method of empathy; comparative analysis of musical works; emotional impact method; four stages of entering the music; methods of developing empathy; music interview method; method of intonation and comprehension of music and modelling art and the creative process; method of creating an artistic context; method of art and pedagogical communication and others. Creating visualization is a form of synaesthesia method as a phenomenon of correlating disparate images of objects that are perceived through different modalities and based on the mechanism of association. Visualization is an imaginary creation of paintings, imaginary drawing events, images, playback of sensations. Thanks to computer technologies it is possible to use virtual music visualization, visual reproducing person’s own emotions, feelings, visual images that are arising while listening to music. The method of musical piece visualization is one of the new methods of music education, use of which is possible only on condition of mastering modern computer technologies, including multimedia software for recording and covering sound, images, video, graphics etc. It belongs to creative forms of students’ individual work, depends on their personal experiences and needs creative expression.