Folklore Transcripts of Musical Instruments as a Tool for Multicultural and Multilingual English Education of Students

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Department of Tatar Studies and Cultural Studies, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

2 Department of Tatar and Cultural Studies, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Abstract

This article demonstrates how folktale transcriptions on the piano can benefit students' multicultural and multilingual education. The significance of developing effective methods for multicultural and multilingual education, as well as creating educational materials with content that reflects the diversity of national musical cultures and is applicable to students' future professional musical and educational endeavors, make this work relevant. The experience of teaching music at the university's Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication is summed up in this article. It draws attention to the potential of well-known composers' piano transcriptions of folk music for various instruments as a means of promoting multicultural education and serving as a lucid illustration of national musical culture. This article demonstrates how the genuine traditions of playing national instruments on the piano are embodied by piano transcriptions. Composers mimic various instrument playing techniques by utilizing a variety of piano performance techniques and texture devices. The pieces, which eloquently capture the spirit of the country, have a rational functional and harmonic structure that makes use of textural elements that are distinctively close to the Western European piano transcription genre. This helps to address issues related to multicultural education and prepare for future performances. instructors of music in the pianism academic traditions.

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Volume 14, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research in Applied Linguistics (ICRAL 2023), October 30, 2023, Kazan, Russia
October 2023
Pages 482-486