VOCAL AND CONDUCTING AND CHORAL TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF MUSIC AT THE SECOND (MASTER'S) LEVEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The article reveals the peculiarities of vocal and conductor-choir training of students of the second (master's) level of higher education in the specialty 014.13 Secondary education (Art. Music), substantiates the need to improve its quality. Considered the purpose, structure, content component, prerequisites for studying the course "Solo singing and conducting", which constitutes the mastery of the educational content of the educational and professional training program for applicants of the first (bachelor's) level of higher education (productions of voice, choral conducting, basic musical instrument with school repertoire practice, music theory and solfeggio, etc.). Basic abilities and skills are defined: vocal (creating the correct singing posture, mastering the skills of singing breathing, sound production, vocalization, rounding, masking vowel sounds, mastering various types of sound attack, purity of intonation, achieving a high vocal position, cantilene sound, correct articulation, etc.) and conductor and choir (correct conductor's posture (position of legs, body, hands, head); natural functioning of the conductor's apparatus, muscular freedom of all its organs, execution of the "conductor's point" in the gesture, entry and end techniques, mastery of basic metric timing schemes, means of artistic expression etc). The main approaches to the selection of the educational repertoire, which is formed purely individually, taking into account preliminary training, creative abilities, and specific pedagogical tasks, are revealed. The main types of classroom and independent work, means of diagnosing learning results in the process of current, modular and final control are characterized. The general and professional competences and program results of master's students in the course "Solo singing and conducting" were determined.