The Music teacher's systematic idea of the national musical culture

The author claims that a systematic idea of the musical culture (first of all, the native culture) is a part of the general competence of an educated person and an essential component of Music teacher’s professional competence. The formation of such idea is an urgent task for institutions of pedagogical education in Ukraine and the People's Republic of China. Solution to this problem involves the improvement of training forms and methods. The modern training process should move away from teaching insignificant factual knowledge, excessively detailed abstract provisions. It is necessary to focus efforts on the living, flexible, and systematic ideas of musical cultures, tested on the experience of one's own artistic activity. The main goal of the article is to reveal the psychological nature and to substantiate the model of the musical culture systemic idea. Attention is paid to the terms concept, picture, image of culture; some shades of their meanings are revealed; the author prefers the terminological expression systemic idea. The concept Idea is interpreted in a broad psychological sense. The meaning of this term includes not only trace images stored in human memory, but also generalized images that reflect classes of objects. Thus, the idea of musical culture is interpreted as a complex of psychological properties. It can be represented by a structural model, the components of which are: 1) specific sensual images that arose as a result of the artistic artifacts and acts perception; 2) empirical knowledge and overviews of musical culture; 3) theoretical concepts of musical language, types of composition, styles and genres, historical development of creative practice; 4) some important factual knowledge about musicians and musical artifacts, cultural events, social institutions, etc.; 5) interests and value attitude to certain aspects and properties, or to the entire national musical culture.