Musicology Annotation << Back The problem of interaction of words and music in «10 poems on words of revolutionary poets» by D. Shostakovich Yulia M. Rogacheva The article is devoted to the problem of the relationship between words and music in a cycle of Shostakovich «10 choral poems». In this perspective, the possibility of the detection of the hidden meaning of the music, written in the years of Stalinist repression. The work presents little-known aspects of the history of creation of work. It appears that initially, the cycle was conceived as a composition that includes 8 instead of 10 numbers. The last two numbers were added after the show Shostakovich cycle fellow composers who subjected him to harsh criticism. The identifi ed рarallels with the story of the creation cycle «From Jewish folk Poetry». The article describes the methods of the composer with the literary text and considers the characteristics of interpretation, texture, the genre and the characteristics of the main rooms, originally amounting to cycle. Keywords: Shostakovich, a capрella choirs, poem, facture, genre, subtext. Contacts: E-mail: sinfonico@yandex.ru Pp. 19-26.