Musicology Annotation << Back "Song of Fish" from the poem "Mtsyri" by Lermontov in the romance genre XIX–XXth century Natalia I. Verba The article is devoted to the consideration of cases of realization of "Golden fi sh Song" from the poem "Mtsiri" by M. Lermontov in the Russian romance of XIX and the turn of XIX–XX centuries. The purpose of such analysis is to consider the means of embodiment of the image of the Sea Virgo in the music art. Despite the name, the image of the sea maiden is the central one to the poetic text. This image is the archetypal one and it has some characteristics which were fi xed in the artistic practice. Stable characteristics of the image determine the appropriate ways to capture it in musical art. In the analysis of romances based on the text of Lermontov's "Golden fi sh Song" the author makes the special accent on intonation, metrorhythmic, tonal, texture features, shape-forming principles and emphasizes a very similar vector of creative searches of different composers in the embodiment of the mermaid image, which produces intertextual connections between works. Correlation of characteristics of Lermontov's mermaid in the romances of Russian composers allows to make conclusions about similarity of the created musical images and about conditionality of this phenomenon by the archetypal image. Keywords: archetype, image, intertext, romance, Russian music. Contacts: E-mail: verba.natalia@yandex.ru Pp. 03-20.