Development of Concentration Future Musician-Teacher in the Class of Solo Musical and Instrumental Performance

Abstract

The article examines the basic characteristics of concentration as most important property of attention of future teachers-musicians and the methods which help its effective formation during piano lessons. Studying of scientific approaches to this concept of a context of physiology, the general psychology, pedagogy showed that concentration acts as the most important psychological condition of deeper understanding of objects and the phenomena, optimum course of cognitive and practical activities of the person, especially in the course of the learning and creativity. A person activity, enthusiasm and continuing interest in a concentration subject help increase of attention concentration. The success of development of this property of attention in many respects depends on application by the teacher of special receptions for the organization of activity with an object, allocations in new aspects, their analysis and comparison, search for new properties of an object, ways and opportunities of its application or improvement. Special focus is placed on characteristics of the conceptual ideas of music pedagogy for development of attention concentration of students. The carried-out analysis of positions of authoritative representatives of performing art and music pedagogy showed that concentration is a starting point of musical and performing creativity and an important condition of efficiency of pianist work. Summarize experience of outstanding representatives of piano performance and theatrical pedagogy allowed to suggest the effective approaches to development of concentration as the significant quality in no small measure influencing disclosure of creative potential of future musician-teacher and defining a possibility of his productive self-realization in an instrumental and performing activity. The author comes to a conclusion that the ability to concentrate can be developed under the leadership of the teacher during training in a class, on rehearsals and also in homework when performing specially organized exercises. The persistence in mastering the concentration equipment by performance of specially organized exercises will allow the musician to operate consciously process of attention, it is essential to increase concentration time on the solution of a creative task.

Keywords

• music pedagogy
• musical and instrumental performance
• concentration as property of attention of the musician-teacher
• piano class