About Pedagogical Innovations in the Context of the Metamorphoses of Contemporary Musical Culture

Abstract

Music theory in Russia and in other countries has substantially elucidated the contemporary academic music culture in its most diverse manifestations. However, educational practice which is focused on academic traditions has been realizing to a greater degree the lack of balance between pedagogy and culture. An evaluation of the situation as a critical one calls forth the ideas of a fundamental renewal of the strategies of musical teaching which are declared to be innovations. The article poses the question about the indispensability of the rectification of this conception, which is endowed with theoretical and practical value, but requires concretization in connection with the placed goals. The author examines the innovational educational principle of work on the advancement of the universal cultural background of students of higher educational institutions and colleges. In correspondence with such a phenomenon as the visualization of audial compositions permeating the network space, this involves a broad implementation of the visual element into the teaching of music theory disciplines. The principles of teaching must transform themselves from the positions of present-day culture and the new mechanisms of its existence.