Individual and Personal Approach to Children at the Initial Stage of Learning Choral Singing

Abstract

The article presents a theoretical justification of the pedagogical feasibility of implementing an individual and personal approach to children at the initial stage of learning choral singing and reveals its essence, pedagogical potential, and features of its use in music lessons. Three main pedagogical conditions necessary for its implementation are described: 1) the teacher’s knowledge of the features of children’s singing voices, the quality of their singing intonation, which must be taken into account when presenting certain singing tasks of varying complexity to the class; 2) the teacher’s knowledge of various ways of choral arrangement and processing of the song material that is supposed to be learned, focusing on the specific composition of the class choir; 3) the orientation of the educational process to the formation in each child a positive emotional and value attitude to their own voice and ideas about its expressive capabilities, ways of protection, the ability to observe its condition and development. Special attention is paid to the characteristics of pedagogical tools that can guide a music teacher-choirmaster in implementing an individual and personal approach to young singers who are just beginning to master the basics of choral singing.

Keywords

• vocal and choral work
• music lesson
• first-graders
• class choir
• the initial stage of learning to sing
• individual and personal approach to children