Teachers of RAM named after. The Gnessins spoke out against the existence of special music schools

1. The Gnessin State Music College ensures compliance with the rights of citizens to education established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Law of the Russian Federation “On Education”, and, focusing on the Model Regulations on an Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education, the Procedure for Admission to State Educational Institutions of Secondary Vocational Education, approved by order of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation dated 03/05/99. N573, as well as Recommendations for organizing the activities of admissions, subject examination and appeal commissions of educational institutions of secondary vocational education (appendix to the letter of the Ministry of Education of Russia dated December 18, 2000 No. 16-51-331in/16-13) guarantees the transparency and openness of the work of the admissions committee , objectivity in assessing the professional abilities and level of training of applicants.
2. Citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to study for free on a competitive basis at the Gnessin State Medical University if they are receiving secondary vocational education for the first time, and also if the applicant does not have a higher level of education. In some cases, for applicants to specialty 0502 “Singing” who have demonstrated a special level of vocal and musical abilities, but already have this or a higher level of education, the admissions committee, in agreement with the founder, may consider the issue of free training. Citizens of neighboring countries have the right to free education on a competitive basis if there are agreements between the Russian Federation and the corresponding country. Foreign citizens and stateless persons have the right to paid education on a competitive basis.
3. The size and structure of student admission to the Gnessin State Medical University is established in accordance with the license for the right to conduct
educational activities in the manner determined by the Charter of the Gnessin State Medical University:
3.1. free education at the expense of the federal budget within the admission quotas established by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation;
3.2. paid training based on contracts with both individuals and legal entities;
3.3. before the start of accepting documents, the admissions committee determines and announces a list of specialties for which the Gnessin State Medical University announces admission, and the number of places in each specialty for admission at the expense of the federal budget;
3.4. in the interests of the optimal composition of educational groups (choirs, orchestras), a differentiated competition can be established (by instruments, by voices), the terms of which are discussed at the meeting
admission committee.
4. Admission to the Gnessin State Medical University is carried out on the personal application of citizens who have basic general, secondary (complete) general or primary vocational education, on the basis of a competition based on the results of entrance examinations.
5. The Gnessin State Medical University notifies applicants of the availability of a license for the right to conduct educational activities and a certificate of state accreditation, gives applicants the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the Gnessin State Medical University Charter and other documents regulating the educational process.
6. Along with a personal statement, applicants to the Gnessin State Medical University are required to have documents proving their identity (passport or birth certificate), a state-issued document on basic general, secondary (complete) general education or primary vocational education (original or notarized
photocopy), medical certificate including information about vaccinations (form-86-U), photocopy of the insurance policy and four photographs measuring 3x4.
If a notarized photocopy of the education document is provided, the original must be submitted to the admissions committee on the day of the last exam.
An applicant entering a paid department records this in writing in his application. Transferring documents from a paid department to a budget department after the start of exams is not allowed.
Other documents may be submitted by the applicant if he is applying for benefits established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. All documents, including those determining the right to benefits, are accepted as a single package, which is not subject to revision.
An applicant who has submitted all documents receives a receipt. Before the first exam, the applicant receives an examination sheet, which is the only document allowing entry into the school building and passing the next exam. When entering the classroom where the tests are being conducted, the applicant presents a passport (birth certificate) and an examination sheet. Without an examination paper, an applicant is not allowed to take the exam. The exam results are communicated to the applicant on the same day by the admissions committee.
Persons who do not appear for entrance examinations for a valid reason, and who have documented this, are allowed to take tests in parallel groups or individually until the entrance examinations are completely completed.
7. The admissions committee works constantly. Its composition is approved annually by order of the school director. Applications from applicants are accepted from June 1st to June 29th.
8. Entrance tests to the Gnessin State Medical University are held from July 2 to July 15. The schedule of entrance examinations is approved by the director of the school and posted on the eve of the first exam.
9. Examination commissions are formed according to the subject principle, their composition is discussed by the subject-cycle commission and approved by order of the school director.
10. Free consultations for applicants are held from June 1 to June 29 and are advisory in nature. At other times, consultations are available for a fee.

Good evening! This year she is an applicant for pop and jazz singing. I decided to look for reviews (for some reason right now), it’s strange that there are almost none. So, I can say the following: the university is considered the most prestigious higher musical institution, and accordingly it has the greatest demands. Believe me, they are the biggest.
She graduated from the Sochi College of Arts in 2013 and decided to enroll there. Passed tests in Russian language and literature. I didn’t take the Unified State Exam because, as you understand, I had a secondary education. Many, by the way, despite this, passed the Unified State Exam and, in my opinion, greatly regretted it. DO NOT TAKE THE USE if two compulsory subjects can be taken as entrance exams. The probability of getting a HIGH score is very high, while on the Unified State Exam in the same literature you will get 70 as a maximum, well, unless, of course, you are a masochist :) The Russian Unified State Exam is easier, but you must admit, writing a dictation and getting 95 points is much easier than writing Unified State Exam in Russian? All this applies to children who have received secondary vocational education; others, if I’m not mistaken, will have to pass the Unified State Exam in Russian and literature in order to enter music universities and more. In literature, the entrance exam is also not difficult, if you have read all the works of Russian school literature, well, and know what each work is about, without much fanaticism, consider that you have written the exam with a decent score! A very simple test compared to the Unified State Exam.
As for the entrance tests in written and oral music theory, here things are much(!) more complicated. In theory, you need to swim. This is what they give to pop-jazz vocals, at least that’s what we had today, and I think they don’t change the requirements every year: 1. write a dictation (the teacher plays about 6 times at a moving tempo, the dictation is complex, with constant chromaticisms ); 2. The written work consists of 5 points - a) write a major pentatonic scale from the sound C, write a melodic minor scale from the sound C. It is not difficult; b) intervals are given, you need to define them, indicate the keys and resolve them as many times as possible, again, they ask without fanaticism; c) seventh chords are given, they need to be determined, keys indicated, and resolved in the same way; d) a chain with designations is given, for example: subdominant sixth chord, dominant fifth sixth chord, tonic triad, etc. You just need to write down these chords on the staff in a given sequence; e) given a melody, it needs to be transposed by, for example, a chromatic semitone down. That's all. In principle, nothing complicated, but the difficulty lies in the fact that all the chords are not given in key, so learn all the intervals of the pentatonic scale.
The day after tomorrow I will take music theory - orally (you come on two different days, then the results are summarized as one exam in music theory). In theory, they are asked orally by ear, they are required to sing from sight, etc. The most difficult exam, according to Ksenia Valerievna Politkovskaya, promises to be a specialty and a colloquium. It is very difficult to score a high score in this specialty. As I understand it, it doesn’t matter what kind of voice you have or how talented you are, etc. I don’t know by what criteria this exam is assessed (there can be no talk of dirty intonation, of course, there’s something else there, but I don’t know what yet) If in Russian you get 82 in the average and in letters 80 (well, that’s not average, of course, these are high scores, but nevertheless), then in your specialty your average score is 60 O_0!
The colloquium is complicated because you yourself know how well or not well you know jazz, jazz history, creators, many names, their biographies, etc. They ask everything, but jazz is specialized, so you need to know, and if we also tell you about Miles Davis, then the stereotype of club-headed vocalists will evaporate and completely dissipate in the air :) IT IS MANDATORY TO KNOW the fable (well, or not necessary, if, of course, 60 points normal for you). Name jazz standards, great singers and singers of jazz. She is highly approved.
Regarding budget places, there are ONLY 4 of them!!! This year there are 127 vocalists, 20 places in total, 16 paid, 4 free. And this is still a small number of applicants, as they say. In general, you understand, they will enter on the budget, I don’t even know who will enter, to be honest, I’m really looking forward to this moment to understand this topic, who will enter pop-jazz singing at the Academy. Gnessins for budget places... I heard from the guys who are applying for the second time that “they” push college students into these 4 places. But this year there are no students from college... And, of course, this is unfair.
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Teachers of RAM named after. The Gnesins wrote an open letter to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Medinsky. The document was published on the university website.

The letter confirms the faithfulness of the intention of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education to transfer music classes in special schools (such as the Gnessin MSMSH, the Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky and others) into the category of an elective during the education of children from the first to the fourth grade. Thus, from the point of view of a number of professors of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, it is worth teaching children music professionally only starting from the fifth grade.

Next week the site will publish an exclusive interview with the director of MSSMSH named after. Gnesins Mikhail Khokhlov on this topic.

Below is the text of an open letter from teachers of the Russian Academy of Music named after. Gnesins.

To the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation
V. R. Medinsky

Dear Vladimir Rostislavovich!

We were prompted to contact you by speeches that appeared in the media on the issue of music education. These speeches acquire a rather aggressive character and at the same time indicate a lack of competence in the field of legislation of some individuals who are capable of influencing the opinions of both the musical community and government officials.

We consider it necessary to inform you about the existing discussion field.

After reading the article, there is indignation at its speculative format, since the article talks about “music schools”, makes a statement about the destruction of the “initial system of training students of music schools,” which immediately makes one think about the fate of almost five thousand art schools, while the raised the problem concerns only a few schools, which were always called “secondary special music schools” (11-year schools), the importance of which cannot be overestimated, which were always elite and taught especially gifted children.

What is this – incorrectness or a cheap trick to win over even those who are not used to delving into the intricacies of the problems being discussed?

Opinions expressed both in this article and at a press conference (on the same occasion), held on December 2, 2014 at the press center of the information agency “National News Service” press conference on the topic: “The Ministry of Education against gifted children or Why Russia deprived of a full musical education? cause far ambiguous attitudes and not shared by all musicians.

As for primary music education (the first stage of music education), it, as before, can be obtained at the Children's Art School (thanks to the Russian Ministry of Culture for preserving them). The next two levels are still functioning – secondary and higher education. The three-stage structure of domestic music education has been preserved.

On education in secondary specialized music schools (SSMS).

More recently (until 2003), these institutions were ordinary secondary schools, in which music subjects were added to the regular school programs. Thanks to the efforts of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, a standard of secondary vocational education was developed and put into effect for these institutions (2004), thanks to which graduates began to receive a diploma of secondary vocational education upon completion rather than a certificate. Currently, secondary specialized music schools implement the 2011 standard of secondary vocational education with a training period of 10 years and 10 months. At the same time, children also master general education subjects.

Yes, the new Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” imposes new requirements on the structure of the education system. But they make it possible to preserve the content of the education that exists today in secondary specialized music schools.

About primary music education, which can be obtained without any prejudice in secondary specialized institutions.

The Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” (Part 11 of Article 83) specifically for such institutions for gifted children in the field of arts in the primary general education program (i.e. from grades 1 to 4) obliges the federal state educational standard to provide for “requirements for ensuring conditions for students to acquire knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of the chosen type of art, experience in creative activity and to prepare students for receiving professional education in the field of arts.” A clock is provided for this as standard. ( Currently, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science is making these changes to the standard of primary general education, which will ensure the existence of musical subjects is by no means “at bird’s rights”).

On secondary professional music education in secondary specialized institutions.

Part 9 of Article 83 of the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” for the education of gifted children from the 5th grade (after completion of the primary general education program - grades 1-4) provides for integrated educational programs that integrate: programs of basic general education (5- 9 grades), secondary general education (grades 10-11) - with a program of secondary vocational music education - from grades 5 to 11. Hence the period of study for this integrated program, which is 6 years 10 months.

What exactly does the draft Federal State Educational Standard for secondary vocational education in the specialty 53.02.03 instrumental performance (by type of instrument) with a training period of 6 years and 10 months provide, developed in accordance with the legislation?

1. Allows you to make selections, regulated by educational organization, not only to the first level of education (1st grade), but also to the next (5th grade), which to a greater extent protects the child’s right to choose a profession at a more conscious age (not at 6-7, but at 10 years of age), and provides the educational organization with additional opportunities to form a student population not only in the first grade, but also in subsequent ones, for example, accepting gifted children from other regions.

2. To establish, at the discretion of the educational organization itself, the content of the educational program both at the level of secondary vocational education, integrated with basic general and secondary general education, and at the level of primary general education, which, while remaining de jure primary general education, is de facto primary music education (due to the musical component determined by the educational organization).

The above arguments in favor of the said standard are not so much the opinion of the authors of this letter as a statement of objectively existing favorable conditions for the education of gifted children, reflected in current legislation. They are so obvious that it is simply impossible not to notice them. It seems (especially based on some statements at the said press conference) that the purpose of the speeches in the article and at the press conference in this case is not the federal state educational standard, but something else.

We are glad that our position is shared by the leaders and representatives of the Novosibirsk, Rostov, Petrozavodsk, Ural Conservatories, the Ufa Academy of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov, the Krasnoyarsk Academy of Music and Theater, to whom we express our gratitude for their cooperation.

Members of the Academic Council of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music:

Dean of the Piano Faculty, Honored Worker of Higher School, Candidate of Art History, Professor S. E. Senkov

Head of the Department of International Cooperation, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor T. Z. Dzhandarov

Advisor to the rector, head. department, professor Vlasov V. A.

Head Department of String Folk Instruments, Professor A. A. Gorbachev

Head department of special piano, professor, People's Artist of Russia and Dagestan Yu. A. Rozum

Head department of special piano, professor, Honored Artist of Russia V.V. Tropp

Head Department of Chamber Ensemble and String Quartet, Honored Artist, Professor I. A. Chernyavsky

Head Department of Bayan, Accordion, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor Lips F.R.

People's Artist of Russia, composer A. O. Kroll

Professor of the Department of Music History Maslovskaya T. Yu.

Head Department of Opera and Symphony Conducting, State Prize Laureate, Honored Artist V. P. Ziva

Head Department of Composition and Instrumentation, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Laureate of the State Prize named after. Glinka Volkov K. E.

Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences A. S. Bazikov

Head Department of Orchestral Conducting, Honored Artist of Russia, Professor, Ass. IMO activist, member of the IMO presidium Voron B.S.

Head Department of Violin and Viola, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor Koshvanets A. A.