In a rapidly changing world there open new challenging perspectives to look at a lot of scopes in a new, untraditional angle. Modern digital technologies and especially computerisation enables music teachers and pupils to expand their horizon on expression, make new conditions for spreading creativity, open unlimited possibilities for deeper knowledge in music and other art trends. Thus music education becomes more appealing and effective. Using modern technologies for creating music it is easy to motivate high school students to experiment on music and surrounding sounds, inspire and realise ideas, try themselves in the process of creating music. Aim of the work - to analyse in academic and practical aspects high school students‘ creativity expression in the process of computer-based music creation. Object of the work – teaching high school students to create music by computers. In order to ascertain the attitudes of senior forms pupils and music teachers to computer-based composition an empirical research was performed. The aim of the research was to find out how senior pupils evaluate computer-based music creation and how to make computerised music teaching more effective. This was achieved by using these methods: a) qualitative – interview with senior pupils and survey of pupils and teachers, b) quantitative – statistical data, percentage. After performing the empirical research a new academic background was laid on how to use the peculiarities of a computer-based... [to full text]