LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Meninis-dvasinis fenomenas; Meninis-dvasinis ugdymas; Muzikos kūrinys; Muzikos pažinimas; Ugdymo dvasingumas; A work of music; Artistic-spiritual education; Artistic-spiritual phenomenon; Cognition of music; Spirituality of education; Spirituality of educational.
ENThe article explores the following problem: What could a possible conceptual foundation in the reality of education be that would allow one to experience and take in the artistic-spiritual contents of music and in this way to improve the reality of musical education while giving it spiritual features? By knowing music, a sensory understanding by hearing as well as the reflection of systemic connections in the mind are accentuated. However, it is insufficient when seeking to understand music as a spiritual phenomenon. It is necessary to place importance on the high psychological dimension of music knowledge - musical thinking, i.e. the emotionally intuitive and conscious analytic-systemic action that reveals the unity of intonations and their meanings through the means of musical and worded language. A question arises: Is it sufficient to settle for musical text knowledge when striving for spiritual education? It is, perhaps, necessary to accentuate a greater goal - the creation of artistic-spiritual phenomenon and its usage for the purpose of education. In our opinion, the artistic-spiritual phenomenon, as a product of a persons artistic and spiritual creativity, may be defined as follows: It is an internalized state of aesthetic consciousness; the result of artistic thinking and action, whose meaning is the connection between artistic and spiritual components as well as the authentic refection of meaning and spiritual truth (idea) through an artistic form. The artistic component of artistic-spiritual phenomenon is the quality of artistic creation that has achieved the aesthetic level.This component enables, but does not guarantee, integration of artistic creation into a persons spiritual culture. An action of a higher level than artistic knowledge is needed for the onset of the spiritual component of the artistic-spiritual phenomenon. This means that cognitive activity transcends into the spiritual dimension. The result of such activity is not only what is gained in knowledge, but what is lived by it. This is achieved by taking in perfect musical pieces. Their knowledge changes the reality of education: the educational activity gains an essential mover - spiritual force, to which cognitive forces, intellect and artistic expression obey. [From the publication]