Resumen de Coverage of the problem of the development of musical vocational education in Russia in the works of pre-revolutionary researchers
A number of publications by researchers of pre-revolutionary Russia are devoted to the study of the problem of the development of domestic musical professional education. Despite the existence of a large volume and variety of such works, so far in domestic and foreign science no attempt has been made to generalize them historiographically, which justifies the need for such a study – this is the scientific novelty of this article. The purpose of the study is to update and historiographically generalize the publications of researchers of pre-revolutionary Russia, devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the development of domestic musical professional education in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries. Material and research methods. The sources of this study were various scientific publications – monographs, articles, essays. In the course of this work, the following scientific methods were used: theoretical interdisciplinary analysis and synthesis, systemic and structural-functional analysis, comparative historical, comparative historiographic analysis, historical typological, etc. The results of the study. Historiographic analysis made it possible to identify several scientific trends of the indicated period. A significant group of publications consists of the works of musicologists of religious orientation, whose scientific interests included issues of preservation and development of domestic church singing educational traditions. The key thematic areas of these works include: the problem of the influence of foreign musical and educational traditions on church singing education in Russia; creativity and pedagogical activity of domestic spiritual composers. Significant scientific groundwork was made by pre-revolutionary researchers on the problem of the development of domestic musical vocational education with a secular orientation. The basis of these works are books, articles and essays devoted to the creative and pedagogical heritage of Russian classical composers, the peculiarities of the formation and development of the system of training professional musicians in Russia. Conclusions. The results of this study may be of interest to modern Russian and foreign scientists, whose subject of study is the development of musical professional education in Russia before the 1917 revolution.
