THE BAROQUE IN AN EDUCATIONAL KIT ON MUSIC FOR THE GENERAL EDUCATION SCHOOL IN BULGARIA

The responsibility for building the common culture of the young generation lies not only with the family, but to a very large extent also with the school. For this reason, initially in the textbooks conditions for its formation should be created, which should be added to the set of conditions for the full development of diverse erudite, appreciative and sensitive to the beautiful and valuable in art young people active users of cultural achievements. This is even more true for textbooks on the disciplines of the aesthetic cycle, including the subject of music.In the printed textbook to the educational kit on music for 7th grade of Prof. Penka Mincheva et al. (Mincheva, P., 2018), which I examine in the present study, the most important, essential what students must remembernecessary for the creation of a common culture of students, is presented balanced, correct and theoretically sound. Additional information to supplement the knowledge is provided in the book for the teacher. In the notebook for the student are set tasks through which acquired knowledge is tested and consolidate. The electronic textbook to the educational kit contains a large amount of additional information in the form of:Photo galleries illustrating learning information through a series of impressive images on a specific topic;Works for listening and elements elements of them, not included in the printed textbook, which complement the sound impressions of the taught musical material and add practical information to the students' stylistic impressions;Schemes, tables, serving for arrangement, systematization of knowledge, which contributes to the greater usability of the information obtained;Ideas for composing music, for student projects and competitions of teams, which stimulate both the independent search for information and teamwork;Many and varied questions and tasks, through which is penetrated deeper in the perceived information, it is viewed from another angle, new connections are created so that the new knowledge becomes more flexible, more easly reproductible, compatible with other forms of knowledge, cohering with information obtained from other disciplines.To justify, it is enough to examine even one separate topic, developed in the printed and electronic textbook to the educational kit (Mincheva, P. 2018) the topic of the style Baroque, which in this set of teaching aids is related also to the topic of creativity of the two colossi in music J. S. Bach and G. Fr. Handel.Although polyphony was known long before the appearance of Baroque style, namely in the works of J. S. Bach and G. Fr. Handel, created in the Baroque era, raised it to unattainable heights. For this reason, the acquaintance of the seventh graders with the musical Baroque is connected with the study of the most characteristic of the polyphonic textural organization. For the same reason, without knowledge of polyphony, the musical Baroque is more difficult to know and understand.In the electronic textbook to the subtopic for the polyphonic texture, there are placed perspicuous graphics of polyphonic approaches for texture construction iso, canon and imitation, and for greater clearness graphics of twovoiced and three voiced imitation are offered. Graphics are also offered for comparison of the polyphonic type of texture with its opposite homophonic type of multivoice.There are examined as a sound illustration of the polyphonic approach imitation, separate sound recordings sound examples of Dux and Comes from Fugue dis moll from Volume I of Well Tempered Piano by J. S. Bach.There is placed a large amount of additional information about musical genres in which Baroque authors and composers of more recent times have worked, about tone artists from the Baroque era, tasks through which the acquired knowledge is rationalized and consolidated.