Musicology Annotation << Back Music as a Refl ection of the Sociocultural Code. Semantics and Symbolics of the Ritual-Ethnographic Complex of Circassian (Adyghe) Gucheva Andzhela V., Kagazezhev Bayzet S., Batyrova Marina Kh., The article is devoted to the semantic and symbolic analysis of music and the sign system of the ritual and ethnographic complex of the Circassians (Adyghe). Ritual chants are considered in a wide cultural context as part of the ethnographic description of the ritual and as material of the oral musical tradition and literature, subject to ethnomusicological analysis. The provisions and conclusions of the article create the basis for researching the problem of semantics and symbolism, as well as the phenomenon of the sacred in the musical tradition of the Circassians (Adyghes). Keywords: music of the Circassians (Adyghes), socio-cultural code, semantics, symbolism. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.10.2020.1153 Pp. 35-40.