Abstract:

Currently, education is considered as a process that creates conditions for the development of a student's personality. An important role is assigned to the musical art, since music evokes an emotional response in children before other arts, meaningful listening to music activates thinking, memory, attention, and develops sensory cognition. Researchers confirm the beneficial effect of listening to classical music not only on a person's mental abilities, but also on the development of the brain as a whole. In the formation of musical culture, listening culture is of paramount importance as an emotionally valuable and cognitive activity. It is able to provide the widest possible, in comparison with other activities, the volume of impressions and knowledge about music. Listening activity allows to introduce children to much more complex music compared to the one they perform themselves. Our attention is drawn to the emerging trends in music and educational practice - the need for more and more active use of technical audiovisual means in lessons, as well as the use of an integrative, poly-artistic approach in the study of music. The didactic features of audiovisual means are: high information saturation; rationalization of the presentation of educational information; the display of the studied phenomena in development, dynamics; the reality of the display of reality. An integrative or poly-artistic approach to the study of music is realized when the possibilities of other arts are attracted to reveal the artistic image of a work, analogies are drawn between the phenomena of music and other types of art, common and special are established, which contributes to the comprehension of the specifics of music by students. This study presents the experience of introducing works that meet the above criteria into musical practice. In particular, the work of the American writer and composer Dan Brown, "Animal Symphony", illustrated by Susan Bathory. The work represents a symphonic fantasy with a musical characterization of animals, supplemented by a collection of aphorisms. And also, the experience of practical activity is presented – the elimination of the "deficiencies" of the literary heritage of the American composer and educator Leonard Bernstein, presented in his books "Concerts for Youth" and "Music for All", through the creation by students within the framework of project activities of an application using QR codes to listening samples.

Keywords:

Music education, music listening activity, audiovisual education, integrative approach.