CREATIVE LEARNING PROCESS OF A STUDENT INSTRUMENTALIST: ASCERTAINING EXPERIMENT (based on the author’s methodology)

INTRODUCTION Teacher training for the artistic cycle of disciplines is one of the important tasks of further development of education in the conditions of its humanization. In the theory and methodology of music education, the problem of students’ creative development has received some consideration. Creative activity is interpreted mainly as a means of forming cognitive independence in the process of historical and theoretical disciplines studying (O. Voronin, S. Oliinyk, H. Poberezhna, etc.), as a basis for methodological training of future music teachers (L. Archazhnikova, A. Bolharskyi, V. Orlov, O. Rostovskyi, V. Yakoniuk, etc.), as a condition for the formation of artistic and performing abilities (A. Kovalov, O. Prykhodko, etc.). There was also a productive tendency in the national theory and methods of musical education to study the creative and educational potential of students’ composing activity (E. Brylin, 1