Musical concepts in A. Platonov's publicism of 1918-1920s

The publication focuses on formation of A. Platonov’s musical thesaurus in his publicistic writing in Voronezh. The musical contexts of the writer’s early journalism is not studied sufficiently. The researched material includes early articles of A. Platonov: “To the emerging proletarian poets and writers”, “About the art (from the diary)”, “Evening of a Komsozhur”, “Revolution of the spirit”, “Evening of Nekrasov’s poetry at a communistic university”, etc. Concepts “music” and “song” are considered in the context of a romantic and symbolist esthetics, and also an esthetics of Proletkult. The purpose of the study is to analyze the semantic field of concepts “music” and “song”. Study of the article “To the emerging proletarian poets and writers” has shown difficult semantic filling of the subject of “space music” which goes back both to the antique and proletkult ideas about music, that were considered in A. Lunacharsky’s articles. The research of the article “Evening of a Komsozhur” has allowed us to introduce some earlier unknown semantic parallels with Verdi’s opera “Troubadour” into scientific use.