Musicology Annotation << Back Musical Communication of the 20th Century: on the Question of Correlation of Notions Information and Sense Savvina L.V. In the article the author is considering the correlation of the notions of information and sense on the material of the XX century music. Striving for the variety of the musical speech structures – sound pitch accents, rhythmical, factural, timbre ones, dynamical, compositional etc., the modern composition assumes most different and unexpected upshots of musical events, thus extending the number of senses. The main conclusion of the article is connected with the statement of the thesis: between information and sense there exists an inversely proportional dependence. Key words: information, sense, musical communi­cation, semiotics, entropy, communication. E-mail: lira@veriga.ru