The relevance of the chosen topic of the paper is determined by the need to study the development of music education in our time in virtual and augmented reality, focused on the study of new vectors of music education in Ukraine and its entry into the world educational and cultural space based on innovative technologies. The study aims to define and justify the development of music education in virtual and augmented reality, research of innovative technologies to expand the possibilities of the creative process in the art of music, and definition of methods of musical expansion reality. The paper analyzes the directions of development of music education in the works of researchers and scientists, as in the last few decades, scientists have become more interested in the virtualization of society and music education, in particular. Virtual reality is becoming the object of study in philosophy and the humanities and the natural sciences, art history. The article also collects theoretical developments on the topic, specifies the tasks in the music education system in our time in virtual and augmented reality, explores the role and place of innovative technologies to expand the creative process in music, methods of expanding musical reality determined.

The article reviews the concept of instrumental performance training for prospective music teacher through the prism of system approach. It is considered to be psychological and educational issue in terms of the tasks for instrumental performance practice of specialists in comprehensive school. The author points out that the implementation of all kinds of instrumental performance practice of prospective music teacher should be found on the fusion of instrumental performance, psychological and pedagogical skills, sophisticated aesthetic taste and conscious respect to music. The author of the article believes that the intention to equip students with profound book learning and methodological knowledge in the domain of instrumental performance practice should be pursued through the development of their intellectual abilities, formation of genre and stylistic notion, faculty to make sense of musical forms and art expressive means. Improving the quality of professional training of future music teachers, in particular the improvement of their instrumental and performing skills is one of the leading tasks of modern music and pedagogical education.

the specifics of training a future teacher to civic education of primary school pupils from the standpoint of personal, practicing and competence approaches is analyzed in the article. The personal approach is considered as dominant in the process of professional training of a specialist, which contributes to the disclosure of potential opportunities, implementation of personally significant and socially accepted self-determination, self-realization and self-affirmation of the personality of future teachers. The important role of the practicing approach is noted, which involves such a form of activity of the student, in the process of which he consciously achieves set goals, which are formed as a result of the emergence of certain needs of the individual. Emphasis is placed on the uniqueness of the competence approach, which is determined by the requirements of reforming the national education system. The main definitions around the determination of a teacher's professional and pedagogical training and readiness of students to educational activities are presented in different ways, conceptual approaches to determining the professional training of a future teacher are analyzed. The views of scientists on features of formation of civic consciousness of students of higher education are highlighted. The relevancy of establishing personally oriented relations between the teacher and pupils in the educational process of the comprehensive school of the first degree is observed. It is emphasized that the educational essence of such interaction contributes to the cognitive-emotional exchange of the subjects of the educational process, increases the significance of the student's personality for the teacher, helps to value perception the personality of the other and creates conditions for the mutual growth of teachers and pupils of primary school. One of the leading ones is the thesis about readiness as a result of higher activity of the pedagogical school of Ukraine, as a kind of professional innovation that characterizes a new type of a teacher's personality in the conditions of a legal state with priorities of humanism and democracy. The result of preparing students for extracurricular educational work is the formation of professional and educational competence, in the structure of which the following components are distinguished: cognitive educational competence, constructive-educational competence, regulatory-evaluative competence. The main components of readiness for pedagogical activities considered by scientists are motivational (axiological or value-motivational), which includes needs and motives; content-procedural (content, cognitive-orientational or motivational-cognitive), which implies the presence of theoretical knowledge and understanding of the essence of one or another activities; projective and constructive (procedural, praxeological, operational, active-operational or reflective), which records the necessary practical skills. Based on the research analysis of the problem of future teachers training, the preparation of future teachers for civic education of primary school students is defined as a conscious, personally meaningful and internally perceived process of forming students' readiness to carry out civic education of primary school students. The readiness of the future teacher for civic education is the state of formation of professional competence to carry out civic education of junior schoolchildren, which is characterized by the presence of motivational-value, intellectual-cognitive and creative-activity components.

The article is devoted to the question of the categories of the epic as part of the theoretical paradigm of contemporary musicology. It is proven that nowadays there are many books, magazines and articles about the epic genre of music. The concept of a soundtrack that appeared in the 1950s is highlighted of XX century. The compilation of songs “Carmina Burana”, which became the reason for the appearance of the music for the trailers was investigated. It has been established that since the 90s of the XX century, the first companies that were engaged in the creation of music for trailers began to appear - “Globus” and “Inmediate Music”. It is determined that the first studio album of the group “Globus” was “Epicon”. It is noted that video games belong to epic music. It has been studied that epic soundtracks are most often used in video games with the plot of war, confrontation and battles. It is noted that Jeremy Soule, who gained fame thanks to the game series “Elder Scrolls” and “Harry Potter” is the most famous composer of orchestral music video games. The importance of music is emphasized for the video games of the famous American composer Garry Schyman. Emphasis is placed on the talented works of German instrumentalist Hans Zimmer. It is noted that the music is epic and cinematic. Samples of the musical epic of Ukrainian composers are highlighted. Explored Japanese anime style animation. Revealed that talented artists receive the MTV Video Music Awards every year.