Scientific and Methodological Bases for Teaching Chinese Folk Songs to Students in the Context of Traditional Culture.

The article deals with one of the topical problems of music and pedagogical education. Intensive development of cooperation between China and Russia in this sphere makes it necessary to teach students, whose vocal programs include Chinese folk songs, emotional expressiveness of their performance in the context of traditional culture. So far, the scientific and methodological bases for such training have not been developed. The aim of this article is to substantiate the experimental variative section “Chinese folk songs and traditional culture” in the vocal program for future music teacher students. The article considers the study of Chinese folk songs in the context of traditional culture, substantiates the importance of the study of traditional culture of China for the expressive performance of these songs by students, suggests several modules of the experimental variable section of the program of the course “Vocal”: theoretical (cultural-historical, ethnical-cultural and ethnic-music modules) and practical (performing). Based on this the conclusion on the prospects of development, experimental testing and implementation of this section in the programs on vocals for future music teachers, studying in the Chinese and Russian pedagogical universities, is drawn.