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The purpose of the study is to determine the degree to which active teaching methods influence the music education of modern children based on theoretical background and empirical and experimental studies at Russian experiences. In this study, document analysis technique, one of the qualitative research techniques, was used (citiations). Research on active music education were determined and examined. Within the scope of this research, articles and books related to active music education were selected. These articles were analyzed thematically and reported. When the articles about active music education were examined, they were discussed under two thematic titles. These; Using Methods on Active Music Teaching and Implementation of Active Music Teaching at Class, Game-based Instruction at Active Music Teaching, Assessment of Music Lesson. As a results of study; due to the age and the features of information perception, modern children master music better if one develops the skill of problem statement, finding the ways of solving the problem and its actual solution, when the student is an active participant in the education process, turning from an object of influence into a subject of the learning and creative activity. During experimental work, the authors identify the effect from applying specially developed and described in the article active methods and forms of working with children during music lessons. The results of the experiment prove that active methods of teaching music form a positive learning motivation, increase cognitive activity in students, promote independent study and the understanding of large amounts of educational information, foster heuristic abilities and unconventional thinking as well as universal learning and creative skills and abilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]