Formation of the performing attention of the future music teacher as a psychological-pedagogical problem

Abstract

There’s a problem of the formation of the performing attention of the future music teachers in the process of piano
training viewed. The author performed the theoretical analysis of the psychological, pedagogical, musical-methodical literature on the
specified problem; in the course of the analysis different aspects of the observable phenomenon are characterized. In particular there’s
the interconnection of the attention with the efficiency of educational activity, intellectual development of a person in general, with
individual-typological peculiarities of a person, with the interest as the cause of concentration and inspiration as the highest form of the
actualization of the attention in the process of creative activity clarified. The author of the article infers that the performing attention
plays an extremely important role at all the phases of musician-pianist’s work, from the first familiarity with the musical work to the
concert execution. At the same time it appears as means of a musical work’s efficient development and technical mastery; the pledge of
success of concert performance and the display of creative inspiration; the necessary condition of the musical-executional qualities and
the realization of the further effective professional activity.
On the basis of the examined approaches of the different authors to the statement and the solution of this problem there are
features of the performing attention opened, its role, place and meaning in the musical-performing activity of a musician-pianist
determined in the article, as well the necessity of its formation for the future specialists as one of the condition of the perfection of their
musical-performing qualities and the successfulness in the further professional activity underlined.