Music and Computer Technologies in Learning Musical and Theoretical Disciplines by Pupils

Abstract

The article summarizes the pedagogical experience of introducing musical-theoretical disciplines into the educational process that are included in the curricula of Russian music schools and art schools (“Solfeggio”, “Listening to music”, “Musical literature”), educational music-computer technologies - training programs integrated educational game programs of heuristic type with indirect control, musical video dictations and video claves. The introduction of these musical and computer technologies into the educational process, firstly, leads to the formation among students of a system of musical theoretical knowledge about eras and styles in art, the main means of musical expression and their interaction, the development of musical memory, a sense of rhythm, intonation skills, auditory analysis, musical thinking; secondly, it contributes to the development of their cognitive motivation, which largely determines the results of educational activities, creative initiative and independence. Thirdly, this will increase the information literacy of schoolchildren, which in the future, under favorable conditions, is transformed into a trans professional quality that is in demand today on the labour market.