The formation of musical and auditory memory representations during the development of performance skills of a musician

The figurative and associative factor plays a great role during the performance of a musical work. This refers to the artistic part of playing music. Working on strokes, dynamics, intonation, the performer cannot always achieve the desired sound nature of separate elements, fragments, the entire composition. The effective methods that develop creative thinking of a musician are the current issue. The article deals with the concept of the inner ear for music, its role in the development of creative musical thinking. Besides, it outlines an associative approach to perform a musical work and highlights the issues of formation of musical and auditory representations and picking out. The author notes that the above-mentioned notions are used superficially in music classes or remain unaddressed. It significantly reduces the quality of learning the musical material and its perception in the learning process.