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272 UDC 477/59.34 Gorenko Larisa Ivanivna Candidate of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy Senior Researcher, Professor Kyiv International University Kyiv, Ukraine ART HISTORICAL CONCEPTS AND PARADIGMALAPPROACHES OF HIGHER MUSIC EDUCATION IN UKRAINE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Abstract. The article highlights art historical concepts and paradigmatic methods-approaches to the theoretical aspects of higher music education in Ukraine at the beginning of the 21st century. Based on the trends in the development of modern society, values, goals and patterns of the development of the creative personality, requirements for the system of higher art education in the conditions of innovative renewal, integration and globalization, the most general socio-cultural principles of management are as follows: the principle of continuity / evolution of the development of the system of higher art education; the principle of cultural correspondence in higher art education; the principle of taking into account the interconnection, interaction of linearity and nonlinearity in development; the principle of increasing the role of systemic-scientific, conceptual knowledge in all types of human activity; the principle of anticipatory orientation to transdisciplinary synthesis in art education; the principle of ontological pluralism aimed at the formation of different types of thinking. Paradigmatic approaches and principles of the theory of higher music education are identified and characterized as: personally oriented, subject-subject; hermeneutic; philosophical-anthropological; systemic- synergetic; culturological approach and others.