Integration of Music and Literature in the Education System: Inter-Subject Relations

In the modern system of secondary general education, there is a demand for improving interdisciplinary connections between cultural spheres in the learning process, and this need is especially noticeable in the study of literature – a subject in which it is difficult to separate educational material from the historical and cultural context. In the current realities, modern teachers are extremely interested in the issue of additional forms of education. One of them is musical audio recordings – placed in the public domain, they are easy to find and use in the classroom, which makes the learning process more rich and interesting. Even if the found material does not sufficiently correspond to the goals set by the school curriculum, there is always the possibility of adapting it through the use of modern technologies. This article aims to theoretically substantiate the principle of interdisciplinary interactions between music and literature within the educational process. The tasks include: analysis of the connections existing between literature and music; suggesting ways to use music while studying literature at school. At the same time, the authors of the article proceed from the fact that music (musical accompaniment to works of literature) is another special form of artistic text (along with literary reading, pictorial illustrations for works, stage and cinematic interpretations of literary works). With each new form, a new interpretation of any work arises. New content appears, so a work of art cannot be judged only by its special forms (reading a work cannot be replaced, for example, by listening to its musical interpretation).