LEVELS OF MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE FORMATION IN FUTURE MUSIC TEACHERS

Abstract

Based on the findings of Ukrainian scientists, musical intelligence can be considered as universal, characteristic of all people. But there is an opinion that the carrier of musical intelligence is the one who knows the theory and history of music, performance skills. However, practice shows that often amateur musicians "know music" as well as professionals. In our opinion, the issue is the diversity of types of musical intelligence. In this case, it is necessary to find a criterion for assessing the level of musical intelligence that would unite representatives of different cultures with different levels of preparedness for musical activity. Proceeding from the fact that the product of musical intelligence is both the composed music by the composer and the interpretation of a musical work, as well as the perception and understanding of music by the listener, there is a need to identify a single criterion for assessing the level of musical intelligence. In our opinion, in this case, we may be talking about the mechanism of creating an image of a musical work in various spheres of musical activity: composing, performing, listening. Based on the theory of mental reflection of Sergeienkova O. P., Stolyarchuk O. A., Kokhanova O. P., Paseka O. V., we consider it necessary to distinguish the levels of music reflection in the process of its perception by a personality:  the first level is the sensory level, at which the primary construction of musical images is carried out on the basis of their perception by the senses; the second level is the level of representations, at which the listener or performer tries to identify the regularities of the work's structure, reveal the peculiarities of the musical image, and imagine the content of the music; the third level is cognitive, characterized by a person's full perception of a musical work in terms of pitch, intervals, registers, durations, tempos, timbres, textures, etc.

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