Musicology Annotation << Back To the question about correlation of verbal and musical components of folk text Irina Egorova This article is devoted to the problem of performing interpretation of song folklore. The article presents the statement that a song, perceived as whole work of art, has qualities of language and speech. The language of a folk song is a multilevel system of codes-symbols (verbal language, musical language, language of mimics and gestures). Coincidence of separate signs of the notions of speech and song gives possibility to consider the process of development of song’s meaning in the moment of performance as a song speech. Semantic connection of words and music is performed on the basis of general idea as the highest level of semantic generalization- song’s conception. Special attention is paid to the whole intonational and semantic analysis of different variants of Saratov’s song «White fluffy snows». As a result, it is revealed that change of performance’s circumstances (including plot’s circumstances) lead to variant’s change of version of performance’s interpretation of the song. The key role in engagement of verbal and musical components of the song’s text belongs to the semantic meaningful context. Keywords: folklore, folk song, text, authenticity, performance, interpretation, verbal language, musical language, linguistics, semantics, context, conception, association, whole analysis, idea. Contacts: E-mail: i.egorova@inbox.ru Pp. 31-37.