FORMATION OF A MUSICAL THESAURUS AS ONE OF THE TOPICAL TRENDS IN TEACHING MUSICAL AND THEORETICAL DISCIPLINES
The purpose of the article is to determine the possibilities of using the thesaurus approach in the higher education (bachelor's degree) of the modern multi-level system of music education. The application of the thesaurus principle as an informative base in the learning process is aimed, first of all, at developing favorable conditions for the development of students' thinking, as well as creating prerequisites for the intellectual and personal development of future musicians, and the formation of their creative competence. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the consideration of the phenomenon of thesaurus in its refraction to the specifics of music education on the example of a complex discipline of the highest level of humanitarian education - "History of Music". A textbook on the history of Russian music, developed and tested by the authors of the article, is considered as a research base. The manual is aimed at ensuring the educational process, meets modern requirements for educational programs, is complex, aimed at providing information assistance to students in performing a variety of work, both classroom and independent extracurricular. As a result, it has been proved that the application of the thesaurus principle with the obligatory inclusion of visualization techniques is an important and necessary mechanism for the formation of the information base of students in the modern system of music education.