EXPERIENCE OF USING GENRE APPROACH IN THE PROCESS OF STUDY GERSHWINʼS PIANO PRELUDES BY PIANISTS
The article summarizes the pedagogical experience of using the genre approach in the professional music education. The subject of the study is the practical aspects of the implementation of this approach in pedagogical work with students-pianists. On the example of students mastering Gershwin’s piano preludes, the author examines the process of comprehending a musical text through the prism of the genre specificity. The genre approach is determined as awareness of the characteristic musical features of genres in a particular work and the recreation of these features in the process of performance and interpretation. To orientate themselves in the genre specificity of a piano piece, students-pianists are invited to analyze the verbal, figurative-meaningful, musical-lexical, semantic levels of a musical text, determine the dominant genre features and select the corresponding performing techniques and means of expression. Using the example of Gershwin’s preludes, it is showed how at various levels of the musical text features of genres can be traced (traditional academic and typically jazz genres) and how they can be reflected in the performance process. The article proves that genre approach allows students to enrich their theoretical knowledge and improve practical skills, successfully master the genre system of music, comprehend a musical work in genre context, develop professional competence, independently interpretation of musical text.