About Nina Khlebnikova’s Authorial Methods in Teaching Music Theory Disciplines to Wind Players

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Olga I. Kulapina

Abstract

On the basis of archival materials preserved in the library fund of the Saratov State L. V. Sobinov Conservatory, the article discloses the main positions of Nina Khlebnikova’s innovational methods in the sphere of teaching music theory disciplines to wind students. The eldest and most experienced pedagogue of the Music Theory and Composition Department, having integrated to the maximal level the courses of solfege, harmony, counterpoint, instrument study, analysis of musical compositions and foundations of improvisation with the students’ major discipline of studies, has activated the students’ instrumental performance during her classes. Along with the approbated (traditional) forms of work, certain new (untraditional) ones have been enriched by new content. Thus, within the framework of the solfege classes a number of didactic exercises have been developed based on creative assignments and the students’ repertoire from their major studies. All of this not only evoked a positive reaction and an unfeigned enthusiastic interest in the studies on the part of the wind students, but also led to high resulting quality of application of the authorial methodology, which has been highly evaluated in a number of regions of Russia and the countries of the near abroad.
The aim of the article is to provide information, at least in part, on the content of the unique, in many ways new and timeless methodology developed by Khlebnikova, to acquaint the readers with the prospects of developing the basic practical rises of the present methodology and to arouse interest among professionals in its real actualization and high effectivity.


Keywords: authorial methods, innovational instruction, wind performers, specificity, music theory disciplines, solfege, musical ear.

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Kulapina О. И. (2020). About Nina Khlebnikova’s Authorial Methods in Teaching Music Theory Disciplines to Wind Players. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 38(1), 194–204. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1162
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Musical Education
Author Biography

Olga I. Kulapina, Saratov State L.V. Sobinov Conservatory, Saratov, Russia

Olga I. Kulapina, Dr.Sci. (Arts), Ph.D. (Philosophy), Professor at the Music Theory and Composition Department, Saratov State L.V. Sobinov Conservatory