Music Education in Russia: Origins, Ideas, Peculiarities of Development

Abstract

The aim of the study is to substantiate that such features as the intensity of emergence of productive ideas in musical personality upbringing, the development of various types of musical activity (for example, the appearance of children’s theatres, the development of children’s musical creativity etc.), the focus on the creation of social institutions that provide an appropriate musical and educational level are indicative of the Russian musical and pedagogical school of the Soviet period. The paper clarifies the notion of “music school”; presents the trends in the formation of Russian music education in the state policy of Russia in the XVIII and XIX centuries; the domestic musical environment of the XVIII-XIX centuries and the formation of the domestic musical and pedagogical system in the Soviet period. The scientific novelty of the study lies in determining the focus of Russian music education on the identification and upbringing of gifted children. As a result, it has been concluded that the orientation of Russian families to music education of children is a stable Russian tradition that originates in the depths of national history and can be traced to the present time.