Boulez and the others: on interaction and forms of alienation of music, poetry and literature

The article is devoted to « musical sophistic» - a centuries-long dispute on superiority of music or poetry in the way the problem is generalized in the essayistics of one of the ideologists of the new music by Pierre Boulez аnd in the way the problem is expanded in musical-experimental studios in Milan and Cologne. On the example of the compositions by Schenberg, Boulez, Stockhausen and Berio the forms of relations (interactions and alienation) of different arts are revealed.