MENTAL MAP AS A METHOD OF FORMING EFFECTIVE SINGING IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF VOCAL ART

Abstract

The objective of the study is to present principles of organizing a student’s creative independent work on creating a mental map, which form an individual understanding of all the necessary elements of analyzing the artistic content of a musical work, and understanding their own actions in the process of singing. The scientific novelty lies in the development of a method for a student vocalist to construct a mental map as a method of organizing artistic ideas, creative tasks, vocal and performing concepts and the formation of visual structuring skills. The use of a mental map in training a singer-actor is a significant addition to the process of meaningful learning, which excludes the memorization method, which consists of repeated oral repetition of performed works by beginning singers, which excludes understanding of the artistic content of the composition. Meaningful singing presupposes a deep understanding of the musical form of a vocal work, the ability to determine connections in musical and dramatic meaning, and the manifestation of the ability to correlate vocal-articulatory techniques with the expressiveness of the created image of the work. The work of a student vocalist with a mental map develops the performance concept of the work, constructs the principle of interpretation, reveals the characteristics of the genre, and shows creative initiative. In the process of creating a mental map, the student has the opportunity to visually reflect ideas and create a general concept of the vocal image of the work. A mental map, which is an effective form of developing a student’s logical and semantic modeling of the creative process, helps to improve the professionalism of a singer-actor. As a result, the effectiveness of using a mental map in the process of training a student vocalist was demonstrated.