The analysis of the sources and scientific works of the research had been done. The directions under which the scientists worked on the problem (historical, biographical, methodological, cultural, foreign, and music studies) had been specified. . The pedagogical achievements of the following outstanding representatives of guitar education that provided professional development of instrumental guitar education in the second half of the 20th century had been analyzed: M. Helis, V. Dotsenko, V. Zhad’ko, H. Kazakov, V. Kozlin, M. Mykhaylenko, Ya. Pukhalskyi, V. Sydorenko, Yu. Fomyn, O. Khodakovskyi, O. Khoroshavina, A. Shevchenko and others.
It was stated that in the second half of the 20th century the guitarists obtained primary guitar education at institutions of primary arts education: schools of aesthetic education (children's music schools, children's arts schools), children's music schools-studios (at secondary schools, lyceums, gymnasiums, music colleges) and secondary specialized music boarding schools.
It was found that the inclusion of the guitar playing study of the department of folk instruments of specialized vocational educational institutions in the middle of the 20th century slowed down the development of playing guitar as a classical music instrument. It was grounded that guitarists-students needed knowledge of a guitar orchestra, and not an orchestra of folk instruments, because the guitar was not included
in it.
It was found out that in the chronological boundaries of the first stage of the national instrumental guitar education development (second half of 1958 ‒ 1990), the students had been provided with the low quality teaching manuals and music sheets for playing the guitar. That led to the backwardness of national instrumental guitar education from Western Europe. During the second stage of the national instrumental guitar education development (1991‒2000), the actual historical, methodical, music and reference literature, which contributed to the professional development of national guitarists, had been published.
The experience of the Kyiv orchestra of guitarists had been analyzed and its repertoire searches (masterpieces of world classical music, original processing of favorite and popular melodies, arrangement of Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian folk songs, translation of works by contemporary composers) had been determined. However, guitar orchestras in Ukraine are not yet popular. Based on the analysis of national and foreign experience, the following prospects for the national instrumental guitar education development had been determined: to separate the preparation of guitarists into a separate structural subdivision; to review the curricula of primary artistic education institutions, institutions of vocational advanced artistic education, higher education institutions and to balance the number of hours for the practical and theoretical training of professional guitarists; to add to the curricula of higher education institutions the relevant subjects for the professional guitarists preparation; to create two equal directions of choice while obtaining ‘Master’ educational degree: ‘master-scientist and ‘master-performer’; to allow lecturers of higher education institutions of ‘Music’ specialty to choose the direction of their work: a scientific and pedagogical worker or an artistic and pedagogical worker.
