Musical thinking as a factor of formation and development of musical culture: information foundation

One of the important research directions in modern cultural science is the essence of musical thinking. Problems of musical thinking are actively discussed in cultural science and musicology. One of the aspects of musical thinking consideration is the information method, which is very topical in the situation of modern information society and information culture creation. However, the research potential of this method is realized insufficiently. Information aspects of musical thinking are considered in the article from the point of view of operating musical information elements. Musical thinking reflects and cognizes the reality in specific musical representations. Its basic sources are audial, visual and tactual sensations. They fill consciousness with the reflected properties of musical being and give primary musical information elements with which the musical thinking operates. Confluence of sensations forms integrity as a perceptual image. This image merges the emotional and the rational. Consequently, musical thinking operates not only material, but also perception formations as information units. Features of a perceptual image are caused by the structure of individual consciousness formed by social, cultural experience and individual qualities of the person. But, despite the distinctions, perceptual images have general characteristic stable structures covering all means of musical expressiveness, genre and stylistic attributes, composition and dramaturgic principles. These typical structures also represent themselves as musical information units that musical thinking operates. Having acquired the status of property of public consciousness, these musical archetypes become factors of formation and development of musical culture. In musical thinking mechanisms of preguessing and comparison operate because of the ability to manipulate with typical structures as musical information units. Anticipatory representations arising as a result of preguessing guarantee creative activity of musical thinking. The content of musical thinking will consist of the information, which is a product of both sensual experience and imagination. Thus, the volume, the content and structure of musical thinking are flexible and depend on the part of the content of information space of musical culture the person possesses. Modern culturological understanding of musical thinking consists in its consideration as unities of reflection and creation. By means of creative activity of thinking the person creates not only material artefacts of musical culture - musical texts, but also one's own inner world. Creative activity of musical thinking is an essential condition of formation and development of musical culture

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