Musicology Annotation << Back About musical semantics diachronical transformations (questions of analysis) Andrei V. Denisov Historical research of musical semantics has essential value for theorists and all musicians. But it remains the least developed fi eld of musical science. At the beginning general questions of musical semantics historical transformation research are considered. Also its directions and prospects, problem areas are presented. Between them – need of interconnections with extra musical circumstances establishment; processual nature of historically caused changes of musical semantics; at last – complexity in creation of the metalanguage allowing to describe it. Separately on concrete examples types of musical semantics historical transformations are considered – preservation of a steady line out, total or partial disappearance from memory (opposite variant – reconstruction of the primary source semantics), more or less pronounced transformation, radical change. The factors, them causing: the general reference points of culture and also features of the author personal consciousness. Keywords: semantics, music, history, text, context, language, factors. Contacts: E-mail: denisow_andrei@mail.ru Pp. 18-24.