ASSOCIATION IN THE FORMATION OF ART AND FIGURATIVE REPRESENTATION IN BEGINNERS OF VOCAL SINGING
In the article the author presents the results of practical work with young singers in a music school. The research might be found useful to students and teachers, whose activity is connected with the work aimed at forming a singing voice. On the basis of the author’s own teaching experience, taking into account the views of many prominent researchers, teachers and singers, discloses a method of diagnosing type associations in children learning to sing, the possibility of using a single type of associations in the formation of the artistic image for novice singers between the age of 7 to 13. Diagnosing type associations is used as a method of creative task. This makes it possible to produce the level of measurement and diagnosing types of associations in the process of vocal creativity of children. The author describes each type of associations that young students may have: based on comparison, opposition, common features and causation.