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Abstract: The paper looks into specific aspects of university students' perception and understanding of Russian musical folklore, based on the balance of the categories of universality, particularity and singularity in the process of aesthetic education.Being a priority goal of present-day education policy in Russia, the aesthetic education of university students through folklore helps to ensure continuity of generations, development of the worldview and national identity. To analyze the efficiency of aesthetic education of university students through Russian musical folklore, the university has developed and piloted a model based on the interconnection of the teaching activities in the university.In this study, a number of surveys among 18-20-year-old students were carried out and analyzed within activity-based, ethno-educational, competence-based and environment-based approaches and principles of the aesthetic education. Statistical methods of testing and evaluating students' creative works were used. The following stages of aesthetic education of university students were identified: the information-oriented stage, the judgment-based stage, and the practical stage; the statistics shows that the model was efficient.The aesthetic education of university students through Russian musical folklore is related to the area of personally significant relationship within the human being - nature - society system. The process of studying this phenomenon involves the past - present - future plane and reflects the values of the folklore traditions in various periods of history.

Type of Publication: Article