МУЗЫКА В ЛИРИКЕ БУЛАТА ОКУДЖАВЫ

The article is devoted to the study of musical images in the lyrics of one of the brightest representatives of singer-songwriters of the 1960–80s, Bulat Okudzhava. It is noted that music is a universal, permeating the entire artistic space of his poetry. The lyrical hero, as well as the author himself, is characterized by a reverent attitude to music, its deification, the awareness of its mission that heals the soul. Okudzhava’s music is associated with life itself, with life’s fate, and since life and love in the mind of a lyrical hero are inseparable, the motive of music often coexists with the motive of love and the motive of hope, which also causes musical associations and, in turn, finds support in love as the highest manifestation of the human beginning. Often the image of music (or musical instruments such as pipes, flutes, guitars) is anthropomorphic, endowed with feminine features. And since music comes to the world through the play of a musician, the musician is shown as a messiah, as a conductor to the world of higher values, higher truths. The image of a musician combines the ordinary, the mundane with the great purpose of music, that which elevates, takes beyond the limits of everyday existence. In some cases, this image becomes integral whole with a musical instrument (since music is born from their merger) or is endowed with phytomorphic features, embodying the idea of harmony between music and nature. The perspective of the study is the analysis of other musical images in the works of Okudzhava, individual musical instruments and genre forms, orchestra, etc., as well as a comparison of the presentation features of the musical theme and musical images in the lyric poetry of Bulat Okudzhava and Yuri Levitanskiy.