Song repertoire for the senior group of kindergarten. Consultation for preschool teachers

Tatyana Shegerdyukova
The problem of selecting a song repertoire for preschoolers

The main requirement for children repertoire, including the song, - remains the ideological orientation, high artistic merit and accessibility for perception and performance. An important means of musical education and training in kindergarten is the song.

"The children will sing - the people will sing", - wrote K. D. Ushinsky. And whether our pupils will like singing or not depends on us, teachers. In order for singing to be one of your favorite activities, let's get acquainted with the methodological techniques that you need to use in your work, instilling vocal and choral skills in children. The task of a kindergarten music teacher is to teach a child to love singing and not be shy if something does not work out.

When choosing a song, one must proceed not only from the availability of a literary text, but also take into account the nature, structure of the melody, its compliance with the characteristics of this group of children, their vocal abilities, and the general level of musical development. According to the diagnostic results, in most cases it turns out that no knowledge about song children do not have a heritage and the possibilities of their voice, many do not have favorite children's songs. When choosing song repertoire it is necessary to take into account the basic principles of teaching children to sing.

The principle of nurturing education. It instills in them a love for the beautiful in life and art, causes a negative attitude towards the bad, enriches the spiritual world of the child.

The principle of accessibility: the content and volume of knowledge about music, the volume of vocal skills, teaching methods and their assimilation by children correspond to the age and level of musical development of children of each age group.

Selected Available song repertoire should be given to children in a language they understand.

The principle of gradualness, consistency and systematic

gradually move from the learned, familiar to the new, unfamiliar. The principle of visibility. In the process of teaching singing, the main role is played by the so-called sound visualization - this is the performance of a song by a teacher, a specific auditory perception of various sound ratios. Other organs feelings: vision, muscle feeling, or "tentacles"(according to I. M. Sechenov, they complement, enhance auditory perception.

Visibility in teaching singing increases children's interest in music lessons, promotes the development of consciousness, ease and strength of assimilation songs.

The principle of consciousness.

The musical director seeks to instill in the children a conscious attitude to the content of the song, the transfer of the musical image, and the technique of singing.

The principle of strength. Songs learned by children after a while

are forgotten if they are not systematically repeat: vocal skills

are lost if children do not practice singing for a long time. Therefore, do not rush to learn new songs. It is better to repeat what you have learned more often.

To repeat the songs did not bore the children, it is necessary to diversify this process, introducing elements of the new.

Repertoire for each age group is selected in a certain sequence. However, this sequence is very relative. In a particular song, there may be individual "difficult" places, for example, an unusual interval course, dotted rhythm, etc. Additional exercises are needed to master these tasks that are difficult for children.

The music director, before learning a song with children, needs to carefully analyze it according to an approximate scheme:

1. Educational value: the main idea and nature of the musical embodiment.

2. Literary text: a general assessment of artistic qualities, features of the text - the presence of appeals, dialogues, the most significant words in an expressive sense.

3. Melody: the nature of the melody, intonational expressiveness, intervals, mode, size, rhythm, tessitura and range.

4. Piano accompaniment: artistic merit, expressiveness, accessibility for children's perception.

5. Structure (form) songs: one-part, two-part (solo, chorus, couplet.

Preliminary acquaintance with the musical repertoire helps the teacher to understand its content, to achieve expressive performance, to think over the sequence of learning with children.

The skills that need to be taught to the children are also determined, the necessary exercises for sound formation, breathing, diction, expressive, correct intonation, and continuous singing are thought out. The features of each song give these exercises a unique character.

Song repertoire included in the program meets the objectives of comprehensive musical education and development preschooler, is available for assimilation and further independent use in kindergarten and family.

Choosing a musical repertoire, the teacher provides for the possibility of their further use in games, round dances, marches. You can also learn additional repertoire in preparation for the holidays. For this purpose, songs of a certain theme are selected.

If earlier the music director was obliged to work exclusively according to the program, now he has the opportunity to independently select repertoire for their pupils. Here a number of difficulties arise. The first of them is the ability to choose from the abundance of children's song repertoire accessible and easy to implement. In recent years, there have been numerous songs for preschoolers created by both professional musicians and practicing teachers themselves. The authors do not always take into account the possibilities of the child's voice, including wide jumps in the melodic line, too high or low tessitura, and a text that is difficult for children to reproduce and understand. And the teacher is often guided by the fact that he personally likes the song, and begins to teach it with the children, not paying attention to the fact that the children, purely physically, cannot perform it with high quality.

Second problem- aesthetic value songs performed in kindergarten. Due to the decline in the general cultural level of our society, some music directors, for the sake of the undemanding taste of many parents, force children to sing adult songs repertoire, forgetting that pop love songs often of very low quality musically and far removed from the life experience of children in meaning. Words about love and passion from the lips of 6-year-olds sound vulgar and inappropriate. Everything has its time. Children will grow up, and then such songs will sound naturally. In the meantime, they are small, let them sing children's songs.

wonderful repertory collections are releases, "Teach Children to Sing", compiled by T. M. Orlova and S. I. Bekina. They developed methodological recommendations for each song, presented exercises for the development of hearing and voice, and gave examples for singing improvisation. Some music directors believe that the songs from them are outdated. Of course, some songs no longer correspond to our reality. But how much the spiritual world of our children will be impoverished if they do not know the works included in the golden fund of children's songs, such as "Raspberry", "On the Bridge", "Good Soldiers" A, Filippenko, "Blue Sledge" M. Jordansky, "Winter has passed" N. Metlov and many others.

IN repertoire of preschool children age should include songs of classical composers, contemporary authors, Russian folk songs, as well as songs of other peoples. Over the past decades, the world around us has changed a lot. Thanks to the Internet, children now know that they can easily correspond with anyone on earth, sitting in a snowy Siberian town or a tropical hut in distant Africa. And everything that happens far away can instantly appear on the TV screen. Our children already today live in a world that is united, despite borders and different languages. They need not just the ability to respect other countries and peoples, they need the ability to hear and see beauty in a foreign culture. And therefore it is quite appropriate to acquaint with the songs of other countries and peoples.

Singing - the most accessible performing type of musical activity for preschool children. Children love to sing. The song accompanies the life of a child from an early age. It affects the feelings of children, fills their leisure time, contributes to the organization of the game, in a bright, entertaining way deepens their ideas about the surrounding reality.

Vocal and choral singing has great potential for bringing people together, uniting them, it creates the conditions for emotional musical communication. That is why choral singing has always been given worthy attention in the musical and aesthetic education of children. The main goal of vocal-choral singing- education in children of singing and general musical culture. Tasks singing activities stem from the general tasks of musical education and are inextricably linked with them and consist in the development of musical and creative activities, singing communication skills, musical abilities, in the formation of a sustainable interest in singing, to promote the comprehensive spiritual and physical development of children. These tasks are proposed to be solved on the basis of a certain song repertoire, the use of appropriate teaching methods and techniques, and various forms of organization of musical activity. The formation of singing skills is one of the most complex and important sections of the musical education of preschool children. First, work is underway to develop a melodious sound based on elementary mastery singing breath, which significantly affects the purity and beauty of the sound, the expressiveness of the performance. sound production with the correct setting of the voice, it should be natural, sonorous and light, children should sing without screaming and tension. Work on diction begins with the formation of rounded vowels and a distinct pronunciation of consonants. It is recommended to use: exercises of articulatory gymnastics, tongue twisters, tongue twisters, speech exercises, rhythmic recitations. Slender, clear singing in unison lays Ensemble basics- integrity, unity of sound. In singing in chorus, children must be taught to listen to themselves and others, to merge with the general singing, to make sure that not a single voice stands out. When teaching vocals to kids, it should be borne in mind that the child's vocal apparatus is fragile, delicate, and continuously grows in accordance with the development of the entire child's body. Therefore, it is necessary not only to master the methodology of teaching singing, but also protect the child's voice. It is important to prevent children from singing loudly, screaming, singing outside in cold and damp weather.

It is advisable to carefully consider the entire vocal and choral repertoire that will be used in work with preschoolers. The song repertoire should consist of works of art, having educational and educational value.

It is necessary to expand the repertoire primarily through folk songs, since the folk song has artistic and educational value, it never ceases to amaze with its deep content and perfect form.

It is necessary to use melodies from classical works, convenient for reproduction by children, for chanting.

When choosing songs for children to listen to and learn, we must rely on vivid examples of highly artistic children's songs that are time-tested and of great educational value: songs about friendship, respect for nature, love for animals. These are songs from cartoons written by composers A. Ostrovsky, V. Shainsky, Yu. Chichkov, G. Gladkov, E. Krylatov, A. Struve, A. Pakhmutova and others.

The question is content accessibility music should be considered in terms of the possibility of perceiving emotional content, corresponding to the feelings that children are able to experience at the moment.

Practice shows that some teachers formally get to work on the song. They learn songs in order to perform them at a festive matinee. The theme of the songs, the effectiveness of their sound are mainly taken into account. At the same time, program tasks for this type of musical activity of children are not solved consistently. Ultimately, children do not acquire sustainable singing skills. It is necessary that the work on each song has a positive effect on the singing skills of children.

We must not forget that stable repertoire has a number of advantages. A song or any other piece of music, often heard and performed by children, becomes their property and can be used by them in independent activities. This, in turn, leads to a strong assimilation, correct and natural execution. Children will come to school musically prepared.

Analyzing the main educational programs of preschool education: "Childhood", "Kindergarten 2100", "From Birth to School", "Origins", we can conclude that in all programs in the "Musical Development" section there is a vocal and choral direction, has its own characteristics. Feature of the program "Kindergarten 2100" - synthesis of the arts. Children master the skills of primary analysis of works of art in the context of other types of art, get acquainted with the means of artistic expression of various types of art. Content educational program "From birth to school"(authors N.E.Veraksy, T.S.Komarova, M.A.Vasilyeva) is presented in thematic blocks, within which the material is presented by age groups.

Integrated program "Childhood" by O. V. Akulova, T. I. Babaeva contains three parts devoted to different age periods of children. The purpose of the program is to develop the musical culture of a preschooler. Each section is divided into two more components: musical perception and musical performance.

Comprehensive program "Origins" by L. A. Paramonova, T. I. Aliyeva It is aimed at the comprehensive upbringing and development of the child up to seven years. The musical repertoire includes classical music, folklore, contemporary music. The main factor in this program is the dialogue of the teacher with the child, between children and teachers.

But the repertoire in this direction in these programs is not sufficiently rich and diverse. As a result, additional partial programs for musical education.

Program "Harmony" for senior preschool age K. L. Tarasova, T. V. Nesterenko, T. G. Ruban, under the general editorship of K. L. Tarasova. The central place in the program is given to the formation of musical creativity in children and the improvisational nature of the classes. The musical repertoire of the program is selected on the basis of a combination of highly artistic and accessible to children works of classical, modern and folk music of different eras and styles and is organized into blocks of topics accessible and interesting to children.

Program "Baby" by V. A. Petrova provides for the development of musical abilities in children of only an early age in all types of musical activities available to them, contributing to the familiarization of children with the world of musical culture. The program is based on the works of the classical repertoire, the rich range of which implies the freedom of the teacher to choose one or another piece of music, taking into account the level of preparation and development of a particular child. The program has significantly updated the repertoire of musical games.

Program "Synthesis» by K. V. Tarasova, M. L. Petrova, T. G. Ruban and others is interesting because it aims to develop the musical perception of children from four to seven years old. The program is based on the principle of an integrated approach, in which musical works are considered in a single complex with works of fine art and fiction. At the same time, the core art form in the program is music. The program included works of classical art and folklore accessible to children.

Program "Tuning fork" E.P. Kostina aimed at a versatile musical education. It characterizes seven years of a child's life with seven scale steps. Musical education and training are the first, second and third stages, and the stages of musical education, upbringing and development are from the fourth to the seventh. The main place is given to such an activity as the perception of music. The authors have designed a model of the pedagogical process, so the program does not contain samples, methodically developed musical lessons.

Many teachers use in practice a partial program for the musical education of preschool children. "Okay"(authors I. Kaplunova, I. Novoskoltseva). The program includes the development of classes for four age groups for children from 3 to 7 years old. The presence of musical material eliminates the problem of finding musical material. The program is designed in detail, adequate to the capabilities of children, which allows you to successfully master all the material. The peculiarity of the program is a non-standard approach to conducting classes. The vocal and choral repertoire meets all the requirements of musical education.

For each age group, interesting and accessible material has been selected, with which you can solve various problems in the development of vocal skills. The vocal-choral repertoire becomes more complex with each age stage, new forms and techniques are added. The slide shows the areas of work on vocal and choral singing by age groups:

For children 3-4 years old . Folklore is primarily used. Songs and songs are included as exercises, chanting and singing along, they are built on simple melodic moves, simple in rhythm and text.

The songs “Cockerel”, “Ladushki”, “Bird”, “Sun-bucket”, music by V. Karaseva, and many others are used; Exercises for the development of rhythmic hearing: “Who is walking?”, “Cockerel, hen and chicken”; on the development of timbre and dynamic hearing “Loud-quiet”, “Funny pipes”.

D for children 4-5 years old. As exercises for the development of hearing and voice at this age, song improvisations of melodies to a given text are used. For example: “What is your name”, “What do you want, kitty?”, “Where are you”;

Games with singing "Garden-round dance", music. B. Mozhzhevelova, "Geese-swans and a wolf", music. E. Tilicheeva.

Song creativity: "Kitten-Kitten", r.n.p.; "Horse", "March", music. A. Grechaninova.

Songs: “Like on a thin ice”, “Spider”, “Kisonka-Murysonka”, r.n. songs.

To work with older preschoolers, you can take more complex, long melodies. Exercises for the development of hearing and voice: Russian folk songs "Andrey-Sparrow", "Bunny".

Exercises for the development of pitch hearing: “Where are my children?”, “Steps”.

Exercises for the development of diatonic hearing: “Loudly, quietly drunkenly”, “Ringing bells”.

Songs: "Drum", music. E. Tilicheeva; “Guests have come to us”, music by A. Alexandrov; "Blue Sledge", music. M. Jordanian.

Singing games: "Raven", r.n.m; "Cat Vaska", music. G. Lobacheva.

Round dances: “How our girlfriends went”, “I walk with a loach”, r.n.p.

Songs from cartoons by Soviet composers Y. Chichkov, V. Shainsky, B. Savelyev.

For children 6-7 years old. Exercises for the development of hearing and voice: Russian folk songs "Skok-jump", "And I'm in the meadow."

Exercises for the development of pitch hearing: “There are different sounds”, “Think, guess”.

Songs: “Leaf fall”, “There will be a hill in the yard” music. T. Popatenko; “Victory Holiday”, “Soldier Brother” music. M. Partskhaladze;

Games with singing: "Wattle", "Teremok", r.n.p.; "Game with flags", music. Y. Chichkova. Round dances: “Viburnum is on the mountain”, r.n.p.; “The New Year is coming to us”, music. V.Gerchik.

Songs from cartoons by Soviet composers. With children of this age, you can work on dramatizations and musical performances. For example, “Like ours at the gate”, “Where was Ivanushka?”, r.n.m .; "Cinderella", "Cinderella Fly", music. M.Kraseva.

The correct selection of song material (with the inclusion of folk songs, works of classics, Soviet and foreign, as well as modern composers), the use of appropriate teaching methods and techniques, and various forms of organizing the musical activity of children contributes to instilling in them feelings of patriotism and broadens their horizons.

Working in this direction, pupils can show themselves in competitions of singing skills of various levels.

The development of children's musical perception is carried out through all types of musical activities. The musical repertoire studied by children largely determines the content of musical education. That is why the assessment of the quality of musical works used in work with children is the most important issue of methodology.

The musical repertoire used in working with children must simultaneously meet two requirements - artistry and accessibility.

The repertoire of the kindergarten includes folk music, children's classics and contemporary music, but the overwhelming majority consists of works specially created by domestic composers for children. Many of these works do not meet the high standards of artistry. They are written in a simplified, unartistic musical language, include primitive clichés of intonational turns and harmonizations, are boring and uninteresting.

Communication has a great influence on the assimilation of musical experience by children. What is valuable to other people acquires value for the child himself. In the family, kids, as a rule, hear mainly entertaining music. Classical music has no value in the minds of many parents who themselves grew up without it.

The music director forms an interest in music on the repertoire that is traditionally used in the work of the kindergarten. Children perceive the positive attitude of the teacher to these works, and, thus, they form the standards of beauty on works of little art. As a result of activity and communication, children are brought up on a repertoire that is far from perfect. The repertoire used in working with children should include works of classical music from all eras.

In this regard, it is necessary to consider the requirement that applies to musical works - the requirement of accessibility. It is considered, as a rule, in two aspects: the availability of the content of musical works and the availability for reproduction by children.

“Accessibility of content is sometimes understood as the use of programmatic visual images that are close to children, giving support to external objective images. The issue of accessibility of music content is much broader. It should be considered in terms of the possibility of perceiving emotional content, corresponding to the feelings that children are able to experience at the moment.

The share of visual music in the general musical cultural heritage is negligible, so children should not be taught to look for support in objective images when perceiving music. It is useful for children to listen to non-program music, to distinguish between the moods expressed in it, and to empathize with feelings. At the same time, emotional experience is important - the ability to empathize with those feelings that are expressed in the work.

From an early age, children can perceive images that express calmness, joy, tenderness, enlightenment, and slight sadness. It is not necessary to offer works with pronounced anxiety, gloomy sound for listening. After all, music affects a person physiologically - it calms or excites. This fact was proved by his experimental works by the prominent physiologist V.M. Bekhterev. On the basis of experiments, he concluded that the child, long before the development of speech, reacts to the sounds of music. V.M. Bekhterev points out the expediency of using works that evoke positive emotions in children: “Young children generally react vividly to musical works, some of which cause them to cry and annoy, others - joyful emotion and calm. These reactions should guide the choice of musical pieces for the upbringing of the child.

Observations indicate that young children listen with pleasure to the ancient music of J.S. Bach, A. Vivaldi, the music of W.A. Mozart, F. Schubert and other composers - calm, cheerful, affectionate, playful, joyful. They react to rhythmic music with involuntary movements. Children perceive folk music well with the same emotions.

The accumulation of musical impressions is the most important stage for the subsequent development of children's musical perception. Children need to be introduced to the sound of various musical instruments - folk, instruments of a symphony orchestra, a miracle - an instrument - an organ, their expressive capabilities.

Thus, the range of musical works accessible by content to preschoolers is quite wide. Another aspect of the accessibility of the repertoire is the possibility of performing the works by the children themselves.

Singing as a type of children's performance has features that limit the involvement of any repertoire that is accessible to children in terms of emotional and figurative content and satisfies the requirement of artistry. This is a small range of children's voices, the difficulty of children to reproduce the folded rhythmic pattern of the melody, modest phonetic and lexical possibilities for the development of speech.

Therefore, the repertoire selected by the teacher for singing must meet the following accessibility requirements: have a range of melody that is convenient for children to play it, a simple rhythm, and a text that is clear and easy to pronounce.

These requirements, of course, limit the choice of means of musical expression when composers create songs for children.

First of all, folklore - children's songs and songs - meets the organic combination of the requirements of artistry and accessibility of the song repertoire. Many of them are written in the fourth range, built on simple melodic moves, simple in rhythm and text, for example: “Cockerel”, “Cornflower”, “Bunny, you, bunny”, “The nightingale sings, sings” and many others. These songs and songs are successfully used in work with younger preschoolers, in older groups they are included as exercises, chanting. To work with older preschoolers, you can take more complex, long melodies.

Folklore should take its rightful place in the repertoire for children. Folk art organically combines singing, movement, play, thereby helping the manifestation of children's creativity. Folk songs are convenient for singing, many of them are close to speech intonations. This feature of the teacher must be used in the work: starting with the expressive reading of the text in a singsong voice, gradually lead the children to vocalizations, and then to singing. The accumulation of the intonational experience of folk music greatly facilitates the assimilation of the language of classical music, including its turns.

Unlike singing, the use of the classical repertoire in musical and rhythmic movements is not limited to such an extent by the requirement of accessibility. Through movements, children learn the language of music more easily, its empathy is accompanied by involuntary motor reactions.

In order to expressively convey the musical image in dance, play, pantomime, children must master a certain stock of dance and figurative movements. To master these musical and rhythmic skills and abilities, the repertoire of folk, classical and modern music is used. The share of folk and classical music in this kind of children's activity can be significantly increased. Dance music has been created by composers over many historical epochs, it is diverse in genres, styles and is quite accessible to children even at an early age.

The quality of the repertoire, which is selected for musical and rhythmic movements, has a decisive influence on the formation of taste in children, the experience of musical perception. The ability to empathize with music should be developed on highly artistic samples of the musical repertoire - folk and classical music.

The availability of melodies for their children to perform on musical instruments is determined by the brightness of the musical image, a small range, and short duration. To reproduce a melody on a musical instrument, the child must memorize it; therefore, it is important to choose simple but expressive melodies, primarily folk ones. Bright melodies from classical works are also used, convenient for playback, as well as specially created by modern composers (chants "Andrey the Sparrow", "Accordion",).

Thus, the requirement of accessibility should not conflict with the requirement of the artistry of the repertoire used in work with preschoolers. Musical works written specifically for children should be colored with feeling, have a bright melody, diverse harmonization, and be distinguished by artistic originality. Many foreign and domestic classical composers wrote music especially for children.

“In addition to “children's” music, it is very important to listen with children to fragments of classical works of different times - the ancient music of A. Vivaldi, G.F. Handel, J.S. Bach, S.V. children have standards of beauty.

Requirements for the musical repertoire.

Using music in the classroom in kindergarten, teachers should strive to make the process of children's communication with music joyful and exciting. Given the different levels of musical and general development of children, their natural abilities, teachers of preschool institutions should pay special attention to the selection of musical material for working with children - music for listening, songs, dance melodies, etc. This music should be attractive to children and evoke an emotional response from them. Individual work through the game in preschool institutions, a fabulous game image should constantly carry a charge of joyful, kind emotions and energy to the preschooler for his normal development and active creative activity. Only under this condition can the maximum pedagogical effect in the development of children's musical perception be achieved.

Let us consider in more detail one of the most important requirements for the repertoire for the development of children's musical perception - the requirement of artistry. There are three main directions in the use of the repertoire for the development of children's musical perception, which must meet this requirement. The first direction is to introduce them to the world of classical music. It is very important to form the musical perception of children, relying on highly artistic samples of world musical classics, expanding their knowledge of the musical styles of different eras. Observations show that children are happy to listen to the ancient music of I.S. Bach, works by composers of the Viennese classical school - I. Haydn, V.A. Mozart, L. Beethoven, the music of the representatives of romanticism - F. Schubert, R. Schumann. Developing musical perception, forming standards of beauty, it is important to listen with children to the works of Russian classical composers of the 19th century - M.I. Glinka, P.I. Tchaikovsky, M.P. Mussorgsky, N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, the largest composers of the 20th century - S.S. Prokofiev, D.D. Shostakovich, A.I. Khachaturian, D.B. Kabalevsky, and others.

Many teachers believe that classical music is difficult for children to perceive and, organizing the musical education of preschoolers, it is easier to focus on folk music. This opinion is not justified. Folk music is rightly considered an excellent material for the formation of the aesthetic tastes of children, but we significantly impoverish the musical development of the child if we do not introduce him to classical music from an early age. The musical and aesthetic education of children is much fuller and richer if they are consistently introduced to folk musical art and high examples of classical music. The perception of classical music has a beneficial effect on the development of high moral qualities and creative abilities of the child.

The second direction is the use of musical folklore, which should form the basis for the early stages of the child's musical development and meet the high requirements of artistry. Folklore (folk songs, dances and instrumental music) has received universal recognition as one of the most important means of aesthetic and moral education of children. The development of folklore significantly expands children's ideas about the culture, traditions and customs of the peoples of the world. Introduction to musical folklore is valuable at any age, but its serious and full development should begin from an early age. This is a period of intensive development and extraordinary mobility of the child, when the most effective method of working with children is the game. Thanks to the constant connection of folklore with playing methods, children learn song material with great desire. Folk melodies are the most accessible and understandable for children and are the natural artistic ground necessary for the full musical development of the child.

The third direction in the use of the repertoire for the development of children's musical perception is songs written by composers specifically for children. But children are very demanding listeners and not every song finds its way to a child's heart. When selecting songs for children to listen to and learn, teachers should rely on vivid examples of highly artistic children's songs that are time-tested and of great educational value: songs about friendship, respect for nature, love for animals.

Another requirement for the musical repertoire is the requirement of accessibility for children. An important criterion for accessibility are musical genres familiar to children. When comprehending the genre features of music, one should rely on the so-called “three pillars” - song, dance and march, using the method of musical education of children by D.B. Kabalevsky. Preschoolers define these genres without much difficulty. Giving children examples of various musical genres, the teacher should strive to make them not only feel their character, but also realize the features of each genre.

Songs are especially close and accessible for perception by preschoolers. Singing improves perception, memory, thinking, imagination, acquires knowledge and develops abilities. Songs for children should have a small range of melody, easy to perform, simple rhythm, clear and easy-to-pronounce text. Dance and marching genres can be used for children to listen to, constantly associating them with movements. In order to expressively convey the musical image in dance, play, pantomime, children must learn musical and rhythmic skills and dance movements. For this purpose, you can use the repertoire of folk, classical and modern music. In working with children on the development of musical and rhythmic movements, the most diverse dance musical classics can be used: dance pieces by I.S. Bach and V.A. Mozart, waltzes by F. Schubert and I. Strauss, ballet music by P.I. Tchaikovsky.

The next criterion for the accessibility of music for children is based on the use of programmatic visual images that are close to children (images of nature, fairy-tale characters, images of animals and birds, etc.). Program visual music “draws” specific images that are especially closely related to the real life of the children around them. Children understand music that embodies the images of nature (cycles "The Seasons" by A. Vivaldi and P. Tchaikovsky). The very title of the plays in these cycles reveals their content. Listening to such music, children perfectly feel what the composer wanted to express in it, draw pictures of nature in their imagination.

The accessibility of the musical repertoire is directly related to the age characteristics of children and the volume of their auditory attention. At the younger preschool age (from 3 to 5 years old), the volume of auditory attention is small and children are not yet ready for the perception of long-sounding pieces of music. For this age category, it is advisable to choose small pieces (musical folklore - folk songs and dances, pieces of classical dance music (minuet, ecossaise, polka, mazurka, waltz, etc.)), constantly linking music with movement.

As children grow older, the musical repertoire to listen to gradually becomes more complex. At senior preschool age (from 5 to 6-7 years old), the repertoire for listening to music can include bright works of classical music - fragments from operas and ballets, famous piano and symphonic works.