MUSIC COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES AS A RESOURCE FOR IMPROVING THE OPERATIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF A MUSIC TEACHER IN MUSICAL INFORMATICS

Abstract

The paper considers the need for teachers of music disciplines to acquire knowledge in the field of music informatics. The main educational approaches and principles of increasing operational knowledge in this area with the use of music and computer technologies, electronic music synthesizer, digital educational environment are outlined. The thematic plan of the discipline “Musical Informatics” is presented, which has a modular principle in the structure of the curriculum and depends on the level of knowledge of music teachers in the field of computer science and music and computer technologies and on the nature of a specific educational program of additional education (professional retraining program, advanced training course). The research is carried out and the results of the ascertaining and formative experiments aimed at testing the results of the introduction of the methodology of teaching the discipline “Musical Informatics” into the educational activities of music teachers, which contributes to overcoming the formalism of knowledge, are presented.