Abstract. Mastering the teaching methods presented in the Russian pedagogy of music education and having professional significance for the formation of future music teachers is one of the most important tasks in the preparation of undergraduate students from the People’s Republic of China. Among them is the method of complex analysis of musical works in piano class, which involves the use of special musical teaching methods. In this article, the problem of methods is considered from the standpoint of Russian pedagogical and musical-pedagogical science. Particular attention is paid to the theory of special musical teaching methods, whose provisions create guidelines for the development of methods for mastering the complex analysis of musical works by Chinese undergraduate students in piano class. Among the special musical methods, the following are singled out and analysed: the method of integrativity, based on a combination of musicalanalytical, performing and professional-pedagogical components of piano training; the method of fixing musical theoretical concepts; the method of applying special educational tasks aimed at expanding students’ ideas about the main musical forms of European and Russian piano music; the sketch method of learning musical works; the method of professional and pedagogical orientation of piano training, implemented through the inclusion of both Russian and Chinese music in the “school repertoire” of piano class.

Keywords: music education pedagogy, method of complex analysis of musical works, Chinese undergraduate students, piano class, special musical teaching method