The article is devoted to the consideration of the essence of the phenomenon “music”, its fundamental laws and mechanisms of influence on a person. The author explores the evolution of the views of major philosophers and art historians on the content of musical art in a historical perspective. Modern art has expanded research horizons, allowed scientists to trace the genesis of musical art. The consequence of this process is the possibility of a deeper understanding of the content of the concepts “music” and “musical art” during the comparison. Reflections on the development of musical art and the innovations caused by them in the pedagogy of music education are based on three basic concepts of art history: intonation, genre, style. As a result, the author considers the problem of the development of the intonational continuum of musical art, as well as stylistic (artistic, historical, national, individual, composer, etc.), genre, diversity of musical language. The author, trying to answer the question of how to acquaint modern schoolchildren with the invaluable legacy of musical art and show the features of the new musical world created by our contemporaries, explores the problem of choosing a range of musical phenomena determined by the historical era, the corresponding musical language, the formation of the intonational intonational thesaurus, etc. The article consistently substantiates the importance of musical art in the process of preserving the most important spiritual values of our civilization.
Evolution of Views on Music as a Universal Language of Mankind and Its Representation in the System of General Music Education
