Formation of Future Vocal Ensemble Leaders’ Readiness for Creative Interaction with a Music Group

Abstract

The article is devoted to the pressing issue of developing future vocal ensemble leaders’ readiness for creative interaction with a musical collective. The purpose of the study is to highlight the results of an experimental investigation concerning the organizational and methodological foundations of forming the readiness of future vocal ensemble leaders for creative collaboration with a musical ensemble. The scientific methods employed in the study include a combination of theoretical methods: the study and analysis of philosophical, psychological-pedagogical, and music-pedagogical literature on the research problem, as well as information resources from the Internet; the study and generalization of the performance and pedagogical experience of prominent artists; modeling and forecasting. Empirical methods included: the study and synthesis of experiences in organizing vocal ensemble activities, pedagogical observation, interviews, surveys, questionnaires, testing, ranking, the method of unfinished sentences, pedagogical experimentation, and mathematical processing of results. As a result of modeling the process of forming future vocal ensemble leaders’ readiness for creative interaction with ensemble participants, the following organizational-pedagogical conditions were determined. The study employed the paired comparison method, the results of which were used to construct a comparative assessment scale in both control and experimental groups. The effectiveness of the applied methodological innovations was assessed using a series of tests that compared results at the ascertaining and formative stages of the research. The authors assert that the data from the control stage demonstrated significant positive changes in the levels of readiness formation of future specialists across all established criteria.