The Methodology of Musicology in Higner Music Education: Notions
This article discusses the basic concepts used at the level of higher music education in academic subjects of methodological orientation. These subjects are included in the curricula of training of students-musicologists in Conservatories of Music of Russia at the levels of specialties (“Methodology of Musicological Research”), bachelor (“Methodology of musicology”) and magistracy (“Methodology of scientific activity”). Methodology of musicology explores these concepts: musicology as a scientific system of humanitarian social knowledge of the art of music in its concrete manifestations, the main subject of its study - a piece of music; methodological (or meta-scientific) knowledge of musicological approach to problems; model of the creative process; specificity and variety of musicological activity. This article discusses two levels of methodological analysis of musicological problems - metascientific and specialized scientific, defined four objects having at each level some differences: musicology as a science, musicological activities, methodological apparatus of science and musicological theory. Students-musicologists need to master mechanism of logical and methodological analysis of created theory, to make sense of its place, role and functions in the general picture of scientific evolution. The content of professional education of musicologists in the methodological aspect includes study of the subject, goals, objectives, structure, function of musicological theory, disclosure of the specific of its development, methods for facilitating its creation, consideration of continuity of knowledge embodied in it, as well as specific areas characterized by relevance of the problems, effectiveness and practical way. There are visual series for mastering the methodological problems submitted by particular schemes in the article.