Musicology Annotation << Back Development of the Creative Imagination of Students-Musicians in the Classes of Instrumentalists of Institutions of Additional Education for Children Blok Oleg A. The article reveals the relevance of the development of the creative imagination of students-musicians in the classes of instrumentalists of institutions of additional education for children. The conceptual level of the phenomenon under study is comprehended. The analytical spectrum includes the works of: I.M. Sechenov, N.A. Bernstein, P.V. Simonov, S.L. Rubinstein, A.V. Zaporozhets, D.N. Abramyan, P.K. Anokhin, A.V. Petrovsky, M.G. Yaroshevsky, P.I. Zinchenko, A.L. Groisman, G.G. Neuhaus, V.I. Petrushin, E.S. Rapatsevich, O.A. Blok, etc. The following propositions are formed: – imagination is a logical-semantic and emotional-sensory substance that "illuminates" the projection of the performing future, the course and result of the actions-movements of instrumentalists in the context of musical creativity; – imagination activates the existing knowledge, experience, creative potential in general of novice performers; – imagination is a kind of transfer link between the present and the future, ignorance and knowledge, sensual emptiness and emotional revelation, misunderstanding of the musical content and empathy, responsiveness of a child in an instrumentalist class. The aspects of the manifestation of imagination in the line of musical and creative activity of children-instrumentalists are structured. The emphasis is on the search for the idea of the composition, the defi nition of the idea of the embodiment of an artistic image, the identifi cation of expressive possibilities, auditory-motor control, tactile-motor representations, the gradual formation of one’s own style of performance. Attention is drawn to the fact that the vocalization of instrumental music for students can serve as a great help, training for subsequent actions-movements on the instrument. At the same time, there is a "running ahead", which allows you to trace the movement of voices outside the instrument, pay attention to the stroke feed, better hear the reference sounds, fully feel the phrasing breath, etc.It is emphasized that the prospect of further research on the selected problems can be a holistic study of the processes of technical and artistic-creative development of instrumentalist students on the basis of consciousness and the unconscious. Keywords: musical creativity, imagination, children, students, instrumentalists, class, development, performing actions-movements. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.9.2021.1212 Pp. 29-34.