THE RESEARCH OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF PREFERRED MUSICAL STYLES AND PERSONAL FEATURES OF MUSIC TEACHERS

Abstract

The present article researches the relationship of musical preferences of adolescence (pop, rock and rap) and modernity (classical, pop, rock, music lovers) with the display of personal features, such as empathy, emotional exhaustion, state and trait anxiety, pedagogical style and coping strategies. The musical genres and trends are considered as musical preferences and precedential musical phenomenon revealed empirically during the self-analysis by the subjects. The experimental study was carried out on the basis of Moscow Pedagogical State University and consisted of 4-5th-year students of Music Department. The connections between personal features and preferred musical styles of modernity were detected. The students considering classical music to be their favorite musical direction having a high level of personal resources. These results display the positive influence of classical music to the personal resources of future music teachers. This phenomenon demands further investigations and using in the field of musical education psychology. These results highlight necessity of detailed consideration on classical music relationship and personal features of bachelor students musical department during the educational process.