ABOUT THE IDENTEFICATION METHOD OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN’S MUSICAL ABILITIES - "THE SINGER’S REPORT"
This article deals with the problem of musical development of children, especially gifted ones, in the field of the art study, psychology of a personality and psychology of talented children. The main aim of our study is the thorough research of children''s musical talents and elaboration of a special method of analyzing their vocal and musical abilities. One of the most important points of our research was the elaboration of the method of revealing children''s vocal abilities, which is called “The singer''s report”. This method should be applied, when working with school-age children for detecting talented kids and working out a method for identification of a singing talent as part of psychology and pedagogical monitoring. The previous studies on this subject show that the problem has not been yet properly explored, because all researchers considered this problem only as a psychological one, while, we think, it demands an interdisciplinary approach. The method proposed in the paper gives a detailed analysis of children''s vocal abilities and such parameters as compass, register, sonority, intonation, freedom, musical memory, vocal hearing, sense of rhythm, vocal coordination, two-part singing. The results of our work show that the quality of children''s singing is getting worse. The reason of this is hard to be found, but the general reason, as we believe, is in the features of social-cultural and educational situation in Russia. The using of “The singer''s report” helps us to recognize gifted children and put our attention on finding of an individual approach to their development.