Musical Picture of the World as an Educational Phenomenon (On the Example of Contemporary Russian Textbooks)

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Ljubov A. Kupets

Abstract

This article addresses the area of interference of history, philosophy and methodology of Russian education. The author of this text introduces a notion of "Musical Picture of the World" as a means of scientific reflection and investigates educational discourse, as being a part of this notion, in terms of contemporary Russian textbooks on history of music for music schools, colleges and conservatories published in the time period from the 1950s until nowadays. The "Contemporary Musical Picture of the World" is then regarded as an educational phenomenon, which is now emerging on the basis of the transformation of "Soviet Musical Picture of the World," which in its turn is shown to have been dependent from ideological and political context represented in the basic principles of the Soviet Picture of the World. In conclusion the author expresses suppositions about new methodological strategies in the "Contemporary Musical Picture of the World," which are: complexion, tolerance, decentralization and homogeneity, culturological approach, new audition, orientation toward the subculture of contemporary young professional musicians.

Keywords: musical education, musical picture of the world, textbooks, history of education

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How to Cite
Kupets, L. A. (2007). Musical Picture of the World as an Educational Phenomenon (On the Example of Contemporary Russian Textbooks). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 1(1), 241–248. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/834
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Innovation in Musical Education
Author Biography

Ljubov A. Kupets, Petrozavodsk State Conservatory named after A. K. Glazunov

Candidate of Arts, Professor