Scientific approaches and pedagogical principles providing the formation of Primary School students’ solo singing skills

The article presents the issues related to the formation of primary school schoolchildren's solo singing skills. The purpose of the article is to substantiate scientific approaches and principles, the implementation of which contributes to successful formation of primary school schoolchildren's solo singing skills. These approaches ae bound to the ideas of humanistic, structural-systemic, anthropological approaches. The principles of their implementation have been grounded ‒ the creation of a psychologically comfortable environment; individual-personal planning of the vocal-forming process; monitoring of the process and results of the classes aimed at mastering junior schoolchildren's solo vocal skills; artistic and communicative orientation of the vocal and educational process; stimulation of primary schoolchildren's creative activity in musical and playing forms alongside with the solution of their artistic and performing tasks. Some typical mistakes demonstrated by starting teachers have been analysed, which inhibit the process aimed at the formation of primary schoolchildren's solo singing skills and their manifestation at three levels: interpretative-communicative, performing-artistic, forming-technological. The importance of mastering propaedeutic competence by university teachers has been substantiated as a way to anticipate professional mistakes typical for teachers-beginners.