MUSIC AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

The article highlights the main elements of an educational program “Music Computer Technologies”, which is taught at the Academic Gymnasium No. 56 in St. Petersburg for a long period (more than 10 years) and the results of training, which show a high degree of its effectiveness. In accordance with the modern approach to music lessons in Russian education, the goal of the program is integral formation of foundations of the musical culture of primary school students. The key principle of the program is its focus on the personal development of the student, the development of spiritual and moral qualities, familiarity with the phenomena and the main laws of musical culture, and the researcher emphasizes the development of practical forms of music making. The main and especially relevant feature of the program implemented in the gymnasium is its practical orientation: the focus on development of practical forms of music-making by students, underlying practical knowledge, skills and abilities. Making music is playing musical instruments, which makes it possible to create music that both students and students like, and it is a very important component of music lessons, but still poorly developed in the national tradition of teaching music in a secondary school. Music-making skills help a child to master musical creativity with the help of a computer, making it more effective and conscious, based on an understanding of the laws of musical art, and on a lively mood of creative self-expression in musical activity inherent in a musician. To solve the pedagogical problem of the holistic study of musical culture, the program provides for the work of students in several directions, and each of the directions is assigned a separate section of the program.