The relevance of the outlined problem is determined by the need for an anticipatory development of the educational sphere, in particular, improvement of the process of training specialists in art specialties at institutions of higher education, taking into account peculiarities of postmodern development of society. Taking into account the results of the generalization of theoretical searches, existing innovative processes in art education are singled out and analyzed (updating regulatory support, creating original scientific and methodological support for the formation of professional competence, implementing innovative educational programs, using information and communication technologies, implementing a quality management system for higher education, etc.). On the basis of the generalization of the conducted research work, the theoretical model of improving the professional training of future specialists in art by means of pedagogy of dissensus is substantiated. The model describes the goal, subject, object, process, and expected result. The means of pedagogy of dissensus (integrativeness, communicative behavior, dissensus, argumentative speech, different readings of the content of artistic works, etc.) and the peculiarities of their use in the process of training art specialists are characterized. Prospects for further research consist in detailing the model of improving the professional training of future art specialists by means of pedagogy of dissensus and developing effective means of control in order to organize a pedagogical experiment under the conditions of a real educational process.

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.