Musicology Annotation << Back V. Barkauskas. Fifth symphony: some aspects of poetics Denis O. Grockij This article is devoted to compositional approach of Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas who is considered to be classic of national music. In his Fifth symphony we can find specifi c technique of manipulating with “constructive elements” of different types. Embodying of these elements discovers the non-musical ideas which form the meaning of the symphony. The idea of the symphony was described by author as “the catastrophy at Tchernobyl” and the symphony narrates about different matters of this tragedy. The transformation of “constructive elements” allows to trace the formation of meaning at different levels of musical discourse. Keywords: late XXth century European symphony, natural integrity, constructive element, main idea of a work, humanistic ideals, poetics. Contacts: E-mail: grodenis@gmail.com Pp. 12-17.