THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN THE SPHERE OF CHROMATIC HARMONIC PLAYING IN CHINA

Abstract

The article focuses on the issues of the origin and development of vocational training on chromatic harmonics playing connected with the integration of Russian musical culture and education. The process of the formation of accordion art in China is considered in the context of socio-economic trends characteristic of the late 1800s – early 2000s. The analysis of historical facts (Beijing Treaty, Trekhgorye) helps the authors make an assumption about the earlier functioning of chromatic harmonics in the Chinese culture, at the end of 1900s, not at the beginning of the 2000s. The research raises the issues of the terminological differentiation of the button accordion and the accordion at the stage of their formation in Chinese musical art and education, and the publication of the first educational and methodical literature for learning to play the accordion.