Tempo-rhythmic organization of G.I. Firtich's sonatas as a pedagogical problem in the classes of the musical-theoretical cycle

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the urgent problems of music education pedagogy – the formation of professional competencies of a musician teacher. Deepening scientific and theoretical knowledge, developing the ability to independently analyze and evaluate the phenomena of musical art, and creatively solve emerging issues is the main goal of preparing a teacher for diverse activities. A special layer of problems is put forward by the study of modern music, in particular, the new musical language. The article examines one of its most important elements – rhythm, which is promoted to a leading position in the hierarchy of expressive means in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. On the example of the sonata work of an active and consistent exponent of the aesthetics of the musical avant-garde, a prominent representative of the Leningrad-Petersburg school of composition, G.I. Firtich demonstrated the clearly expressed formative role of rhythmic organization, as well as such stylistic characteristics as irregularity, non-square, normative variability of clock size, aperiodic formulas of mixed measures, and a variety of rhythmic patterns. In conclusion, it is noted that the practical development of these parameters will contribute to the development of the necessary professional competencies, will open the way to comprehending the peculiarities of the latest styles of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.