POSSIBILITIES OF USING THE ASSOCIATIVE METHOD IN THE PROCESS OF STUDYING MUSIC OF 20 CENTURY

Abstract

The professional equipment of specialists in the field of musical art implies the ability to meaningfully and emotionally perceive works, the content basis and means of expressiveness of which are comprehended in the process of gaining musical and auditory experience and the work of the imagination. Artistic images, feelings and experiences, “encoded” in sound combinations, seem to the listeners very abstract. Associative connections with specific phenomena and processes help to “decipher” and understand them. Avant-garde music, due to the complexity of its language and means of expression, causes difficulties in the perception and understanding of artistic images and concepts, which seems to be an urgent problem of pedagogy. One of the reasons for this is the lack of specially developed or adapted methods for studying modern composition in music history classes, where an explanatory and illustrative approach is used in relation to avant-garde compositions. Ways to solve this problem lie in improving the methodology that promotes the development of thinking and imagination, helping the listener to comprehend the content basis of avant-garde works. The article examines the associative method of perception from the point of view of the effectiveness of its application in the process of mastering the styles of music of the 20th century in the course of the history of music. The work resulted in guidelines for the application of the associative method in the study of modern composition and the detection of factors that determine its effectiveness. The associative method activates imaginative thinking and emotional memory of a person through associative connections between elements of the musical language and specific phenomena and processes that are more accessible to understanding.