Creation of Multimedia Guides to the History of Music as a Means to form Professional Competence of Future Music Teachers

The article exposes an urgent problem of contemporary university education, specifically the one of designing of electronic manuals on artistic disciplines. It provides redefinitions of the terms nomenclature (“multimedia aids”, “electronic manual”) and the requirements for the modern multimedia aids of teaching. The authors present the electronic textbook “Russian Music: from Ancient Times to Early 20 Century”, define pedagogical objectives determining the necessity to introduce the textbook to the study of the history of music. Consequently, the structure of the manual and various possibilities of its use in teaching music students of both pedagogical and professional specialties are being analyzed.