Methodical Approach to Research of Musical Pedagogy History

The arsenal of methodology of history and theory of musical pedagogy in Russian science of the beginning of the 21st century is actively expanding due to concepts and approaches from the field of philosophy, aesthetics, cultural studies, psychology, sociology and art science in general. Music pedagogy today is studied on the basis of sociocultural, axiological, semiotic, civilizational, paradigmic, intonational, hermeneutic and dialogical methods considered in the article. The fundamental principles of these methods are determined, due not only to the connection between musical art and pedagogy, but also to their capabilities, allowing the researcher to penetrate into the depths of complex phenomena and processes of the music education system. Modern realities of art pedagogy make scientists prefer a paradigm approach, in which symbolic, psychoanalytic and structural paradigms stand out as the basis for scientific research on musical pedagogy of the beginning of the 21st century.