Musicology Annotation << Back The violin performance and his role in shaping the musical text Aliyeva Zarema E. The article discusses the violin works of composers of the twentieth century, in which the tool is interpreted from the perspective of performance features and textual expression, and its sound shape appears modern, unusual, new. The author broadens the range of expressive possibilities of the violin, but is it different in terms of avant-garde techniques of letter from neomodernist to polystylism. special attention is paid to what the new tone of paint find avant-garde composers and how wide is spookocracy potential of the violin. The author seemingly comes to using strokes that make the sound of the instrument unrecognizable, but most, even the most daring experimenters of the twentieth century, still does not deprive the violin of its «human» sound image – of what is given to it by nature and that it attracted composers and listeners at all times. Keywords: violin, music of the twentieth century, avant-garde, sound image, expression, performance style, musical text. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.11.2019.1019 Contacts: - Pp. 45-49.