Annotation

The topic of the article is related to the actual problem of the development of musical and educational activities in modern China, the solution of which is hindered by several factors identified by the author of the article (pedagogical, parental and social). One of the ways to solve this problem is to increase the interest of children in the study of music by enriching the educational repertoire by teachers with piano works by famous composers for children and about children. S. S. Prokofiev is one of such famous composers around the world. Particularly noteworthy is the cycle of his piano pieces “Children’s Music”, written in 1935 in the USSR with the aim of replenishing the educational repertoire of children’s music schools. The plays included in this cycle have programmatic titles and are united by a common storyline that describes the events of one day in a child’s life. The author of the article reveals the educational and didactic potential of these pieces, suggests including them in the “listening to music” section of music lessons in secondary schools in China, as well as in the educational repertoire of children learning to play the piano in conditions of additional musical education. Study of Russian experience by Chinese music teachers will help with this.