IDENTITY AND INDIVIDUAL STYLE OF THE PERFORMER AS CATEGORY OF THE PERFORMANCE THEORY AND PEDAGOGY OF MUSIC EDUCATION
In article the study approaches of personal style of the performer within development of the author's concept on interrelation of categories such as the personal and typological status, a creative method and a style of the performer are considered. Differences between the identity of performer, its spontaneous and unconscious manifestations in his activities, and the personal style of the actor which is created in the course of his conscious and purposeful self-development are justified. It is emphasized that the big role in formation of personal style of the interpreter belongs to a method of his creative activity. Examples of performers whose style identity was worked out preferentially on the basis of the especially close to the interpreter composer styles are given and also performers of “the universal type”, “looking for themselves” in a wide variety of the musical styles and experimenting with traditional canons of their understanding and interpretation. Dialectic result of it is uniqueness of a style appearance of the actor, “the subject of style”. In article perspectives and ideas of the famous domestic theorists of piano performance, experts in the area of pedagogy of music education on aspects, regularities, specifics of operation of the performing musician, on components of a complex of its creative method receive disclosure. The general regularities of creative activities of the performer which are made clear in the considered works give the grounds to the author of article to treat them from line items of methodological generalization. The author specifies on the relevance of a scientific, system and integral research of a phenomenon of personal style of the performing musician in unity with its personal and typological status and method of creative activities and also on need of an output of this perspective in specific educational and methodical development and in practice of pedagogy of music education. In the inference one more direction of a study of a phenomenon of style identity of the performer connected to intraspecific differences in the modern activities of performers (soloists, conductors, participants of ensemble, actors of orchestra, chorus, pianists-leaders, etc.) is briefly defined.