Abstract
The article examines the process of musical education in the system of pedagogical preparation in the teachers’ training colleges in Kazakhstan in the last quarter of the 19th and the early 20th century. A study has been made of the contents, directions, forms and methods of organization of music theory and musical performance education of the faculty. The national and cultural peculiarities of the system of pedagogical education are disclosed, the chronology of the organization of pedagogical educational institutions is formed, and the specificity of the process of musical education, the professional level of musician pedagogues, the material-technical and tutorial methodological provision of musical activities of teachers’ training colleges are determined. During the 20th century the established system of musical education in the teachers’ training colleges in Kazakhstan became the foundation of musical preparation in intermediate professional pedagogical institutions (technical schools, colleges), which became the prerequisite for the formation of musical pedagogical education in Kazakhstan in the second half of the 20th century. Keywords: teachers’ training colleges in Kazakhstan, musical-pedagogical preparation, musical education, the discipline “Singing and Music.”