Pedagogical conditions for the formation of aesthetic consciousness in the process of vocal and choral activity

The author of the study offers a contextual definition of the concept of «aesthetic consciousness», a model of aesthetic organization of vocal and choral activity developed by him, formulates pedagogical conditions for the formation of aesthetic consciousness in vocal and choral activity in the interpretation of choral works. These data are the result of a study that focuses on the formation of students' aesthetic consciousness in vocal and choral activities. In the contextual definition of aesthetic consciousness, the author relies on the study of the genesis of ideas about aesthetics and aesthetic consciousness in philosophy, art studies, musicology, as well as ideas about the formation of aesthetic consciousness in psychology and music pedagogy. The most effective way to form aesthetic consciousness is to introduce centuries–old singing aesthetic traditions in the process of artistic and performing creativity, the experience of interpreting works in choral art. The work emphasizes that the affiliation of choral singing to collective types of music making creates special conditions for the formation of aesthetic consciousness of students. The teacher-choirmaster should observe the artistic and pedagogical functional situations that arise in the creative process of interpretation, using them as a pedagogical tool that provides an instrumental opportunity to introduce the members of the choral group to each other's aesthetic values. Musical pedagogy is considered by the author as a special professional sphere of reality, which has its own expressive forms, perceived and assimilated as a value directly by the senses in purposeful activity to solve artistic and pedagogical tasks. The aesthetic value of the expressive forms of the subject «music» within the framework of all disciplines taught on its basis has a powerful pronounced pedagogical potential and acts as a means of forming the aesthetic consciousness of the future teacher-musician.