Development of children's creativity during non-school musical classes

This article aims to provide theoretical and technological grounds to and analyze the process of development of children’s creativity during extracurricular musical classes. The author examines creative work as a natural form of self-expression. Creative capabilities are viewed as a complex of properties and qualities of a personality providing it with the marketability of individuality manifested through the emotional reactions and states. They are to ready them for the search of solutions for new problems as well as for the creative transformation of reality. Also the article presents a pedagogical technology of developing creative abilities of children during extracurricular musical classes.