Teaching emotional and volitional self-regulation to young musicians-performers at choral lessons

The theoreti-Concal significance of this article is that the psychological essence, structure and specifics of emotionality and mentality of a young musician that determine the artistic level of realization of any music-performance task. The process of teaching the skills of self-regulation of behaviour to future musicians-performers in the context of combination of the system-structural, personal and professional-developing approaches was also researched. A conception of self-regulation of a musician-performer's mentality and his/her professional development was worked out in the college system of education. Personal, motivational and axiological components of the self-regulation process, characteristics of emotional thinking of a future musician-performer, motive forces and conditions of its development were analysed. The role of psychological mechanisms and factors was also defined that determine optimisation of educational process connected with using personal approach in child's evolution, development of volitional and emotional spheres of his/her personality as one of the most important educational tasks of modern school. On the basis of analysis of collective lessons of the Choral class psychological-pedagogical regularities and managing conditions of the process of professional development of emotional-artistic and willing qualities were defined that are necessary for the music-performance activity. Besides, specific features of professional activity of the teacher at choral lessons (collective character of performance, importance of analysis of a piece of music during the initial period of work with it, multifunctionality of the teacher's activity) were determined. The basic role of a complex of special, psychological and pedagogical conditions was outlined; its realization is achieved by application of different techniques and methods of management of the formation process of emotional-volitional self-regulation in the education system of musicians-performers. The analysis of literary resources on the problem of psychological peculiarities of professional activity of a musician-performer was made. The theoretical significance of this article consists in the possibility to use the abovementioned methods in teaching future musicians for the purpose of raising the teaching efficiency and modelling of the personal-professional development of a musician. Materials of the article can be used in the lecture course Musical psychology.

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