The beginning of teaching, when you start to form the future musician, is very important time from which further luck and failure depends. Although there are various circumstances in which child needs more learning motivation. Work theme – the role of ensemble playing by consolidating children’s music learning motivation. The aim of the work – to cognize the role of ensemble playing by consolidating children’s music learning motivation. This aim is realized by doing the pedagogical and psychological analysis of ensemble playing features theory, evaluating the role of ensemble playing by consolidating children’s music learning motivation and learning results, summarizing the results of theoretical analysis and empirical research. This research helps pedagogues to solve hard educative problem of children motivation of learning to play with instrument individually. One of the main problems – how to strengthen children’s music learning motivation effectively making the most of ensemble playing features. Making empirical researches the qualitative ((essay writing, pedagogical observation, conversations with the members of an orchestra), questionnaire (children and teachers) methods were used. The aim of the questionnaire is to find out the children and teachers outlook on the collective playing, its importance to learning motivation and learning results. 91 school-children and 31 teachers from Alytus music school, Kaunas music school and Prienų art school were examined. The... [to full text]