Vocal Pedagogy as a Contemporary Scientific Direction

The study examines the essence, definition, principles, and methods of vocal (voice) pedagogy as a vast area of music pedagogy, rapidly growing and developing, taking shape in the mainstream of the pedagogy of culture and art and, at the same time, general pedagogy. Contemporary trends and problems existing in vocal pedagogy are summarized. The topics studied within the framework of this pedagogy concern the theory of vocal pedagogy, its history, methodology, and the education of vocalists. The historical stages of its development are outlined. It is determined that this development is specific to each country. At the same time, often the influence of some musical and vocal traditions of some countries (for example, of European countries) on others (for example, Russia, China), their mutual influence at various historical stages. The focus of vocal pedagogy as a scientific direction also includes its phenomena, approaches, principles of implementation, and outstanding representatives. The problems of vocal pedagogy include insufficient unity in understanding and using its terminology, difficulties in implementing an individual approach to training vocalists, insufficiently effective use of healthsaving and digital teaching technologies, and low efficiency of some teaching methods. Comparative vocal pedagogy, which examines the features of vocal schools, systems, and traditions of training vocalists in different countries, has been rapidly developing recently. In recent years, the number of comparative scientific papers devoted to the training of vocalists in China has increased in Russian science; even more such works are published by Chinese researchers studying Russian vocal pedagogy.

vocal pedagogy, contemporary vocal pedagogy, principles of vocal pedagogy, history of vocal pedagogy, problems of contemporary vocal pedagogy