The author’s methodology in music pedagogy: a concept, distinctive characteristics and personalities

The paper deals with the analysis of the concepts: «methodology», «author’s technique» and «teaching technology». The author’s methodology in music pedagogy is revealed through the concepts: «author’s concept», «teaching system», «innovative activity of the teacher», «a set of non-standard methods, techniques and teaching aids», which are aimed at developing musical abilities, revealing the creative potential of students, taking into account the personality of the teacher. The paper contains conclusions about the purpose of the author’s methodology, about its structural representation as a sequence of actions aimed at achieving the goal, about the content of specific methods and techniques, about the criteria and indicators of its effectiveness to determine the conditions that promote or limit its application. The paper presents brief characteristics of the author’s methods in music pedagogy: the author’s method of using musical instruments for the development of musical hearing among preschool children (E.I. Zotkina); the author’s technique (A.A. Piliciauskas), which uses a method of understanding the intoned meaning of a work and a method of understanding a personal meaning of a musical composition; the author’s technique (K.A. Martinsen), characterized by the transition from a technical education to an internal one and from the internal one to a private one; the author’s technique SITO (V.G. Razhnikova); the author’s technique Cheryl Porter «Cheryl Porter vocal method».