"LISTENING TO MUSIC": BACK TO THE PROPAEDEUTIC COURSE IN THE PROGRAMS OF CHILDREN’S MUSICALAND ART SCOOLS PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
The article is focused on the problems closely connected with the children’s musical edu- cation and implementation of the course «Listening to Music» into the practice of children’s musical and art schools. The author suggests a look-back review of listening to music in the scholastic ideas of the past century (N. Y. Bryusova, K. N. Ventsel, P. P. Blonsky, B. L. Yavorsy) and reveals the situation in the system of elementary optional musical education before and after the introduction of complementary preprofessional educational programs. The analysis makes it possible to determine new approaches to the traditional methods and techniques ap- plied in the process of listening to music in class.