MA paper “Improvement of efficiency of teaching pupils of primary grades of music school to play musical instruments through optimum combination of age peculiarities and individual working methods" analyses efficiency of individual working methods of teaching pupils of primary grades of different ages to play piano. As children of different ages having different physical and mental capacities, and different musical background study in a music school, this paper focuses on teaching psychology with consideration of individual properties and age peculiarities of pupils. Subject of the study – efficiency of individual working methods of teaching pupils of primary grades of different ages to play piano. Goal of the study – to evaluate efficiency of individual methods of delivering piano lessons for pupils of primary grades of different ages. In order to achieve this goal, the following objectives are set: to determine which individual work at the lessons stimulates pupils of primary grades to learn; to discover peculiarities of pupils of different ages of primary grades of a music school; to check efficiency of individual teaching model through questionnaire survey. Questionnaire survey was conducted, during which 60 pupils of primary grades of ten-year B.Dvarionas Music School were polled. The first part of the paper contains theoretical analysis of various aspects of the problem: factors to be considered during individual work at a lesson, a number of methods that can improve... [to full text]