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In this article the author presents his view on the question of the development of musical and aesthetical abilities of children within the frame of additional education system as one of the most impotent aspects of personality development and one of the leading aims of additional education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan. As of today different types of innovative in terms of structural organization and content-richness of educational process educational institutes successfully coexist in the Republic of Kazakhstan; they realize transition from the center-knowledge to the competencing educational model which main priorities are: development of the individual specialties of each pupil; establishing conditions for perfection of creative potential and development of harmonious personality. And the great part is assigned to the system of additional education including musical and aesthetical. The author takes the view that musical and aesthetical abilities can be formed in any pupil, even having rather ordinary musical abilities. The system of educational process created by the author was successfully tested on the basis of Ust-Kamenogorsk Children Music School №1 since 2007 till 2014 having become original scientific-experimental platform. In result the school practically refused enrolment of pupils according to abilities. Any wishful has an opportunity to be enrolled in the school. The author stresses that such work couldn’t be realized without special training of teachers who not only must be specialists but also have enough scientific-methodical background and actively cooperate in the mentioned direction. In result the experimental work exercised in three stages and included the following types of pedagogical activity: creation of authoring and modified programs aimed for the development of musical and aesthetical abilities of pupils; description of the constructed system of development of the desired abilities under the conditions of Children Music School; carrying out of pilot forming and finding experiments which allow testing of separate program models, sum total of methods and instruments of development of musical and aesthetical abilities of pupils; systematization of outcomes of the experiment with clarifying of methodic recommendations; substantiation of pedagogical conditions which optimize the developmental process of musical and aesthetical abilities of pupils of additional education; analysis, summarizing and generalization of research results. As the main conditions of successful work for the development of musical and aesthetical abilities the author mentions unity of purpose of administration, teachers, child and his parents; scientific-methodic maintenance of educational process; learning of developing methods of definite types of musical and aesthetical abilities by teachers, and personal-oriented applying of these methods considering specialties of each child; availability of the developed diagnostics and stability of its exercising.