About Applying Probabilistic-Static Methods in Studying Regular Laws of Music and Musical-Pedagogical Research Works

Abstract

In the mid-20th century musicology and the contiguous disciplines presented a set of farsighted ideas containing broad possibilities for studying the factors of uncertainty in the system of musical thought and partially anticipating analogous ideas in the sphere of exact sciences. The article examines a set of probabilistic-statistical methods in application to researching the regular laws of music, and also carries out elaborations devoted to applying these methods to musical-pedagogical practice. The authors of the article draw special attention to musical-computer technologies, which received development at the turn of the 20th and the 21st centuries as means of studying music within the framework of the system of contemporary musical education on its various levels – professional and supplementary professional. The article also elucidates certain issues of inclusive musical education connected with the mastery of probabilistic-statistical regular laws of music, including the logic and the technique of musical composition. Characterization is provided to the complex research and scholarlymethodic elaborations undertaken by the Tutorial-Methodological Laboratory “Music Computer Technologies” affiliated with the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, which served as the basis for development of music scholarship and the practice of music composition and exerted an influence on the musical culture of the early 21st century.