CREATIVE-TYPE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF FUTURE CHOIRMASTER

Abstract

. Education has its focus on searching for innovative teaching tools and methods. Current paper considers a topical issue of improving the quality of choirmaster training of future music teachers by means of information technologies. The purpose of this work is to analyze the literature on using a number of computer programs in the educational activities of a choirmaster and to summarize the author’s long-term experience in this particular field. The paper offers certain ways of using audio and music editors, virtual studios, virtual synthesizers in musical disciplines, as well as specifies the types of activities, where the computer software spread either proprietary, free of charge or on the basis of free licensing can be implemented. The author defines a concept of “creative-type computer software”, proposes a classification system and describes characteristic features of this types of computer programs, and illustrates didactic perspectives of using the computer software for the choirmaster practice.