Creative Thinking and Creative Technologies as a Modern Component of Instruction of Music Professions

Abstract

The article is focused on elucidating the necessity of implementation of methods of development of creative thinking into the system of music education. The predominance of logical methods of analysis in the process of music education negates heuristic thinking and transfers the accentuation from the creatively active production of new ideas to mere reproduction of already existing and known models of professional behavior. According to the theory of psychologist Joy Paul Guilford, who initially brought in the term “creativity” into scholarly use, its didactic directedness is initially highlighted, particularly, the formation of its basis the capabilities of solving problems swiftly and non-standardly, the complexity of which is continuously growing in the speedily changing modern society. The presence of this skill within the framework of creative professions is especially crucial, because in art the process of evolution is in many ways connected with the violation of the existent norms. The success of conservatory graduates, who work, among other places, in concert organizations, may be guaranteed not only by their performance opportunities of technical and interpretation varieties, but also by the search for new formats of presenting their music to the audience. This is demonstrated in the article on the example of collaborative artistic projects. While expounding the thesis of a goal-oriented upbringing of creative thinking, the authors propose the structure of a special educational course within the frameworks of which on the basis of theory and practical tasks this skill may be developed. The training part of the course presumes the use of various directions of methods for developing creative skills elaborated by various scholars, such as, for instance, Sigmund Freud’s method of free associations, Tony Buzan’s mindmapping, Mark Levy’s freewriting, etc. The summarizing conclusion of the article is that the formation of the skill of creative thinking is the key to successful personal and professional growth of specialists in the sphere of the art of music.

Keywords: creativity, modern educational technologies, art collaborations, methods of developing creative thinking