Experience in Developing Imaginative and Intonational Competencies in Future Music Teachers

The content analysis of students’ training shows that the traditional approach does not use the possibilities of the integrity of choral conducting courses and the gradual and eidetic organization of such training. The research aims to develop, scientifically justify and experimentally verify the effectiveness of the methodology for developing imaginative and intonational skills in students while studying choral conducting courses. Empirical methods are pedagogical observation, talks, surveys, interviews, project methods, tests; research and search methods: experimental and creative tasks, reflexive methods, interactive methods, heuristic methods for modelling imaginative and intonational skills (creative imagination, art views), methods of statistical data processing. A relevant methodology for developing imaginative and intonational competencies in students based on the organizational and methodical model has been designed, verified and implemented in practice. The main approaches, principles, functions and teaching methods have been identified. Pedagogical conditions for effective developing imaginative and intonational competencies in students employing choral conducting courses have been outlined. The obtained results have proved the originality, effectiveness and possibility of implementing the designed methodology into the practice, as well as the practical expediency and promptness of the proposed stage-by-stage methodology. Thus, 22% of control group students and 33% of experimental group students have achieved a high level, with the difference of