Traditional Song Folklore as a Means of Pupils' Aesthetic Education
The article studies the traditional song folklore as a means of aesthetic education of Children's Arts School pupils in "The Small Academy of Arts" in Kazan. The developed program of "Folklore ensemble" for 1<sup>st</sup> -3<sup>rd</sup> school forms is based on the annual agricultural calendar and on the specific properties of traditional folklore: syncretic character, variability, locality, collectivity, oral form. The combination of methods of folk and modern aesthetic education is of major importance.