The article substantiates the formation of musical and aesthetic culture of future teachers of music by means of the festival movement. The substantiation of the festival-competition «Steps to Mastery» is just being held on the basis of the Centralukrainian State Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko. Music culture in the context of training future music teachers in higher education is interpreted by us as a complex dynamic phenomenon that integrates knowledge, skills and abilities in major musicological disciplines, experience in various types of music performance, the level of intellectual and creative abilities of future music teachers art, readiness for active musical and creative activity and increase of values of musical art. Aesthetic culture of the future music teacher is defined as a holistic, complex personal education, characterized by globalization of aesthetic worldview, level of aesthetic education and development, refined aesthetic taste, aesthetic perception and response to works of music, as well as the creation of aesthetic values in life and art. Musical and aesthetic culture of the future music teacher is the core of his professional culture, spiritual values and personal intellectual and artistic image. In the process of studying music-theoretical, instrumental and vocal-choral disciplines, future music teachers form an emotional and value attitude to the creative heritage of composers who were able to recreate the style, character and atmosphere of the era, which forms a holistic picture of the world, allows to think and focus those events that affected social change and contributed to progressive neoplasms in society. Participation in the festival movement promotes the creation of relationships between innovation, technology and creativity, the search for innovative and creative ideas. There is a presentation of the professional level of performers and musical groups, creative interaction is formed in the context of a new system of communication and a new model of cultural life. Music festivals have a positive impact on the preservation of cultural heritage, the promotion of national and world values.
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