The article examines the creative activity of students-musicians of various specialties studying at a modern university. The author of the article evaluates educational and creative activities in terms of the activity of all musical abilities and intellectual resources. The interdependence of the quality of education in a professional musical educational institution and the degree of resistance of musical culture is emphasised. The educational activity of musical students is the process of daily acquisition of information that must be related to the musical subject. Examples of such information are printed samples (books), paintings, sculptural samples; living natural objects and their spiritual transformations in human consciousness (emotions, feelings, sensations, experiences). The article also raises questions about the need for a functional orientation of the active creative activity of a student musician and the creation of an ideal musical and semantic construct as a result of this activity.