The forming of students' professional preparedness to studying the musical folklore of foreign culture

There are the main results of investigating the problem of students-musicians’ forming professional preparedness to studying foreign musical folklore. This is actual in the case of development of intercultural relationship of different nations, which haven’t common demographic characteristics. The author defines the “professional preparedness” in the context of the problem on the base of analysis of science literature, determines its structure, pedagogic conditions and evaluation criteria.