Peculiarities of teaching the academic discipline “Quartet class” in distance learning conditions

The relevance of the article is due to the new realities of today, namely, the transition of most Ukrainian educational institutions to distance learning. This has caused a change in the approach to the educational process and proved the importance of media literacy of educators, their knowledge and mastery of Internet technologies and the introduction of various useful applications into the curriculum. 
The purpose of the article is to overview the innovations of the educational process in modern realities, provide a list of tools and demonstrate the implementation of individual applications capable of modernizing online learning and helping to achieve efficient and high-quality results. 
The methodology. The purpose and objectives of the research have determined its methodology. Methods of empirical knowledge, systematization and generalization have formed the fundamental basis of the study. 
The results. The article highlights the peculiarities of the online learning process. Special attention is paid to the need to improve the media literacy of educators. An overview has been made and references have been chosen for courses, webinars, seminars, online platforms for professional development in the field of digital technologies. It has been proved that such software as Audacity, BandLab, Audio Editor Hokusai, Reaper, Samplitude, Cubase and the following online resources Audio-Joiner, Mp3cut.foxcom, clideo.com, filesmerge.com, solveigmm.com, mp3food.com have become useful in the process of teaching. 
Specific examples of the use of Google’s digital tools have been offered, including Google Classroom, Google form, Google sites. The study has also revealed the importance of individual student work and a systematized list of forms of independent student work in the quartet class has been provided, among them: listening to a given quartet composition; work with a quartet score; understanding of the form of musical works, their semantic load; learning the musical text, taking into account all the composer’s notes; selection of the most profitable application; arrangement of beats and their coordination between members of the ensemble; development of pausing and its coordination with other team members; finding the culminating points of the musical work and building the logical development of its composition. 
The scientific novelty of the article is the description of innovative options for interaction with students in non-standard learning conditions aimed at maximum productivity and success. 
The practical significance of this research lies in the introduction of the proposed ideas into the educational process and the stimulation of creativity development and the use of creative pedagogical approach in communication with students. 
Conclusions. One of the main conclusions of this study is that online teaching of ensemble disciplines, in particular the quartet class, requires a professional, creative pedagogical approach which is highly integrated with knowledge of computer technologies, monitoring of new digital tools that simplify the educational process and make it possible to motivate students and get high learning results. This article represents a kind of impetus for the creative imagination of educators and is aimed at its further development.