Principles Of Classification Of Musical Enlightenment In Russia In The Second Part Of 19th Century-Early 20th Century

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 In the second half of the XIX century Russia was one of the centers of European musical art, but the music existed only in small halls and living rooms, the audience of the concerts was limited to fans of music, mostly of the nobility. The situation began to change since the 1860s, when the leading musicians, composers have set a goal of artistic education of students, development of music education and professional musical culture in Russia. This was facilitated by the activities of the Russian musical society, the St Petersburg Philharmonic society, teaching activity of the Commonwealth of composers of the "Mighty handful", publishing in print materials about the art of music, opening of music oriented institutions at various levels, the inclusion of music education in the school system.

In the studied period, different forms of musical enlightenment are given the proliferation, however, due to the complexity and multiplicity of the types of educational activities the need in their classification arise.

The theoretical methods are used in the study: analysis of the artistic, pedagogical literature, normative documents, educational programs and handbooks for music teaching and education; a synthesis of historical data on the activities of musical and educational organizations; the systematization of a repertoire of musical groups, classification, synthesis, analogy and abstraction.

Study of music education, activities of musical groups and institutions helped to identify a variety of types of music education (concerts, lectures, student musical evenings, Quartet evenings, historical concerts, public lectures, etc.) and to classify them according to the following criteria: form, quantity, audience, socio-economic status, music performance cast.