Innovative Information Technologies for Learning to Play Keyboard Instruments in Pedagogy of European and Chinese Music Education

Abstract

The article highlights innovative areas of learning to play keyboard instruments, including those based on information technologies. The selected innovations are considered from the perspective of the European and Chinese systems of teaching children to play such instruments. The purpose of the article is to determine the directions of introduction of a number of innovations, including informational ones, in the European and Chinese systems of teaching to play keyboard instruments: piano and accordion. The historical path of evolution of musical performance on keyboard instruments in Europe with corresponding pedagogical innovations is revealed. The article analyzes the counter innovative trends in the modern music education of schoolchildren in Austria and Russia, and considers the possibilities of mutual introduction of pedagogical innovations based on the positive experience of each country. The article highlights a shorter historical path of the formation of European style keyboard performance in China than in Europe, and the features of the Chinese piano school focused on achieving high technical skill. The authors identify such modern trends in introducing innovations in music education, which are manifested in the Chinese and European music education systems, as the introduction of digital and smart technologies.