Alevtina Boyarinceva

The article is devoted to one of the most important of musical abilities – intonational hearing. The author shows interrelation of his manifestations in speech and musical activity. The insufficient level of development of intonational hearing is in many respects connected with an unsuccessful condition of the modern sound environment. The training course of solfeggio provided that its fundamental methodical principle is esthetic, instead of "technical" education of professional qualities of the pupil can become an effective form of intonational hearing development.