SOUND SOFTWARE AND MUSIC EDUCATION

The article deals with the most famous systems of music education (SME); their essential differences and similarities are highlighted. Principled basic points of the SME as well as the ways and forms for implementation of the aim are discussed. In order to reveal the level of inter-correlation of the SME and information technologies (IT), IT teaching aids of various European countries are analysed. Alternative models of application of digital technologies in the process of music education are reviewed. Specificity of perception of audio and visual information is analysed from the psycho-physiological point of view, the importance of dimensions of time, space, highness and timbre of sound to formation of the whole world view in the consciousness is discussed. Digital technologies are analysed as additional means in music education. Sound software on the PC and MAC basis applicable in music education is reviewed; the favourable features and drawbacks of particular computer programs are revealed.