Musical Informatics Course for Musicians with using Music Computer Technologies

Abstract

All over the world, educational researchers are looking for new ways to optimize music education in accordance with the new capabilities of digital tools. World-wide changes are being implemented through transmitting and presenting the information. Digital technologies have permeated music and musical education. Advances in sound recording and music creation technology, combined with new media capabilities, have defined previously non-existent directions for the development and distribution of music and require knowledge that musicians who have received classical musical education do not possess. The subject of the article is the evolution of current theoretical and practical bases for improving the knowledge of musicians using music computer technologies. Learning to play electronic musical instruments is to be required by contemporary society in connection with the demands for a higher level of professional activities in the field of music, the need to conduct a high-quality teaching that includes computer technologies in the field of art as s particular of the Digital Age School. The discipline of Musical Informatics, which has been constantly developing since the mid-70s (IRCAM, France), can have a significant impact on the formation of subject knowledge of musicians associated with the development of new music computer technologies and their use in creativity and training.