Computer Music Technologies in the System of Present-Day Musical Education: An Attempt of Terminological Analysis

Computer music technologies present an autonomous section in the domain of contemporary informational technologies, a complex of programs and apparatuses which makes it possible to carry out operations with sounds, to create and edit musical material, to form and perfect the process of musical education. The development of the methodology of mastery of this new category of musical instruments, as well as its developing international scholarly significance pose the problem of elaboration and utilization of a single terminological apparatus which could categorize the present phenomenon most precisely and fully. The article offered by the authors aims at revealing the possibilities of generalization of terminological elaborations existing in of various scholarly and pedagogical schools and traditions. Keywords: methodology of scholarship, computer music technologies, scholarly methodology.