Soundscape Compositions in School Art Education

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Elena N. Piryazeva

Abstract

The article gives the reasons for the didactic expediency of appealing in art education to the one of contemporary art phenomena – soundscape composition, its development in creative activity from the standpoint of the developmental studying.


From this point of view, art should be comprehended by principles and methods adequate to its nature, by organizing a special, artistic activity that allows to children to run through the artistic image birth process, its development and formation.


The purpose of this study is to identify the pedagogical potential of soundscape compositions. The tasks are: to study the corpus of soundscape compositions; to determine their peculiarities; to transfer the characteristic features of soundscape compositions into the school art education didactics.


As a result of the studying it became possible to establish the following: the soundscape compositions created by children allows them to experiment with the collected material, to gain practice in expressing an artistic attitude to the surrounding reality; in the process of creative activity to master the contemporary musical art’ language through information and communication technologies; to enrich their sensations by transforming sound associations into other artistic modalities: color, gesture, verbal, visual, tactile; to develop the ability of intonation comprehension of musical and non-musical manifestations by converting recorded sounds according to the laws of musical structure.


Keywords: art education, art pedagogy, creative development, contemporary music, contemporary art, soundscape, soundscape composition, information and communication technologies, electronic music creativity.

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How to Cite
Piryazeva Е. Н. (2022). Soundscape Compositions in School Art Education. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 47(2), 172–179. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1369
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Information Technologies in Art Education
Author Biography

Elena N. Piryazeva, Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies of the Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia

PhD (Arts), Senior Research Worker, Institute of Art education and Cultural Studies of the Russian Academy of Education