Hermeneutic principles of musical education: interpretation discussion

Abstract

The educational process at a Higher Educational Institution of Arts is closely connected to the understanding of artistic texts. Teachers together with students fill their own understanding of the texts of musical works, comprehend their manifestation in teaching practice. Cultural breakthrough can only take place, if a teacher and a student coexist in the interpretative activity. Hermeneutics aspires to the spiritual interpretation of the text, revealing its sense and meaning in the universe of culture. Based on the hermeneutic doctrine, understanding serves as the fundamental basis for each stage of the interpretation process of the musical work. The article is devoted to the substantiation of the hermeneutic interpretative principles of the musical work in the educational process of the Higher Educational Institution of Arts. The following principles are included: any piece in the text can be understood only through the whole text based on the given context (hermeneutic circle); hermeneutic interpretation is developed from the understanding of the musical work and its application in your own experience; the interpretation of the text is carried out in order to realize its meaning and function. When interpreting a musical work based on hermeneutical principles, a musicianperforms personal emotions, feelings, aspirations, ideals, values through the expression of universal human values. Interpretation of the musical work as the basis for the professional activity of the future specialist in the field of Arts should be regarded as a process and result of spiritual and intellectual knowledge, understanding and interpretation of the sense-bearing aspects of the content of the musical work.