Dolynskaya L. Children's choir as a performing phenomenon in the genre system of musical art.

The dissertation is devoted to the study of specific aspects of the functioning, perception and influence of the children's choir, which are presented in a variety of genre and specific forms of musical art. Theoretical, historical, aesthetic-philosophical, psychological, musicological, genre and executive-choral parameters are covered, and it allows to determine the multidimensionality and principles of functioning of the phenomenon of children's choir. The main modes of the child's image of the world are identified in their intersection with the choral creativity - integrity (holism), collectivity, mythology, empathy, emergence, angelicity, playing nature, which determine the functional aspects of the children's choir both in "adult" music, and music addressed to children. The peculiarities of the functioning of children's choirs in the historical dynamics of perception and study of childhood with the disclosure of related trends are revealed.