CREATIVE REFRACTION OF TRADITIONS IN THE PROCESS OF STUDYING AND MASTERING MUSICAL FOLKLORE

Abstract

In the article, the author explores the need to change the approach in teaching and mastering folklore from memorizing samples and reproducing them to creative reinterpretation of tradition. It is proved, based on the works of folklorists, the possibility of considering folklore as a set of textual variants in which the basis (formula) is preserved, but individual elements of poetic and musical texts are modified. The author notes that the formation of students’ attitudes to the creative refraction of traditions is an important task of a teacher for the study and development of folklore. The variable approach to the subject of interpretation of folklore does not contradict the essence of this art, but on the contrary, constitutes the tradition of the existence of the phenomenon. The use of such a (variation-improvisational) pedagogical principle in the development of musical folklore makes it possible to activate the creative potential of students, to direct the process of developing their creative abilities in a positive direction.