Features of Organizing Pupils’ Independent Work in Music and Performing Classes

The article deals with the features of organizing the students’ independent work in the performing classes of music departments of pedagogical universities. While teaching performing disciplines it is necessary to take into account many individual characteristics and features inherent in each student — physiological, psychological, ideological, spiritual. The importance of the emerging interpersonal relations between a teacher and a student is emphasized. The main methods of pedagogical influence on students of performing classes are revealed — display, verbal explanations, emotional and volitional drive, and ways of organizing independent work on mastering a musical work, aimed at improving the technique of the performer and comprehending the artistic image of the work. At the lesson, the teacher shall build a model of the student’s independent homework and determine the ultimate goal — the formation of the interpretive concept of the work and the public performance of the work in the most complete and perfect form. The need to develop a young musician’s abilities for self-analysis, reflection and self-regulation of his practical actions shall be noted.