PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO TEACHING MUSIC HISTORY

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the presence of theoretical and methodological problems of teaching the music history in universities of culture and art, such as the lack of content and conceptual information, the methodical support of self-education as a leading trend of our time and the formation of an independent creative personality of a professional musician. Teaching the music history requires the creation of an internal connection between historical knowledge and musical and analytical experience, but such a connection in the minds of students is formed with difficulty in connection with dramatic changes in the world information system and the nature of perception and understanding of information in general. The purpose of the study is the specifics of applying a phenomenological approach in teaching the music history as one of the ways for students to master musical experience and go through the music history as something living and real. The methodological basis of the study was Waldorf pedagogy and the theory of R. Steiner, which allow you to acquire knowledge of the music history in the direct experience of musical and creative activity. The scientific novelty of the study is that the history of music is considered here as a subject reflecting the evolution of the consciousness of mankind. Thanks to the phenomenological approach, students not only gain knowledge of how music is created at one time or another, but also identify the internal connections between music and the time that give rise to it.