Musicology Annotation << Back Particular manifestations of conceptualism in modern domestic musical art Marina L. Zaytseva, Anna A. Gorbenko Understanding of the processes occurring in contemporary art practice, is extremely important, as it allows to reveal tendencies of development of the art, to determine the prospectivity of various creative ideas. In our time the word «art» is so often replaced with such notions as «art practice» or «conceptual practices» and extremely important is the understanding of the differences between these concepts. Study of the composers whose works have a conceptual basis that allows to identify the logic of the formation of the artistic image, as well as to understand the nature of genres and the stylistic transformations in contemporary art. The object of the study was the work of one of the most important Russian composers of conceptual I. R. Yusupova, and particularly the film «The Birds» (2009) (directed by I. Yusupova and A. Dolgin), her mystery «Dreams of a Fowler» (2015), which refl ected the main features of the composer’s artistic thinking. The article also discusses some aspects of creativity B. Tarnopolsky, P. Karmanov and A. Aigi, which help comprehend the phenomenon of Moscow conceptualism, a kind of musical system of artistic thinking, which became the subject of the study. The study aims at identifying the main trends in contemporary art music in the interpretation of traditional art genres and ways of extending the semantic fi eld of the artwork with the help of numerous intertextual connections. Understanding of the logic of development of contemporary art allows to identify the fundamental continuity of artistic traditions and activities of Russian composers, conceptualists, to determine their contribution to the development of world culture. Keywords: conceptual art, moscow conceptualism, Iraida Yusupova, Pavel Karmanov, Alexei Aigui, Vladimir Tarnopolski. Contacts: E-mail: marinaz1305@mail.ru, E-mail: aniagorbenko@mail.ru Pp. 03-11.