Musicology Annotation << Back From a Literary Word to a Musified Word Grigoriy A. Rymko What happens to verbal text when it comes into synthesis with music? Comparing the first and final version of the text (as presented in the verbal-musical composition) enables us to show some significant changes. Possible conversions of verbal text in text-setting are discussed in this article. Keywords: textual original, converting text into music, textual score. E-mail: g.a.rymko@rambler.ru. Pp. 25-32