Music Curriculum Late 20th – Early 21st Century in the Context of Musical Abilities: Current Dimension

The article analyzes the music curricular that have been approved by the Ministry of Education for secondary schools of Ukraine. The author reveals their structure, content and general educational goals. The ways to implement the tasks are determined and their features and capabilities for teachers’ effective use are considered.The issue is highly topical because at the turn of the millennium ways to reform school education in general and art in particular are significantly and intensively searched for. At the end of the 20 th – the beginning of the 21 st century several music programs emerged. In each of them the authors tried to reveal the educational potential of music art. The most famous of them are the programs created by the group of authors led by D. Kabalevskyi. The experimental program is worked out by Z. Zhofchak. The curriculum for secondary schools is made up by the team, led by A. Avdiievskyi. The CURRICULUM AND GUIDELINE FOR MISIC LESSONS is processed by the group of authors led by O. Rostovskyi. The programs were analyzed according to the formation and development of musicality to correspond to the modern scientific understanding of the issue. Considering that since the introduction and until now significant social changes have happened, numerous studies in the field of art pedagogy have been held, the experience of practicing teachers have been summarized, in other words one can quite exactly assess the effectiveness of the aforementioned programs.