About the personification of musical instruments in art

The article discusses the phenomenon of personification of musical instruments in various aspects of verbal and non-verbal creativity. The author comes from the idea, which is that everything that is done by man as an individual, a specific group of people, and humanity as a whole - is his self-portrait. Musical instruments - their tone, shape, material is defined as the manifestation and realization of one of the "system files" human thinking. Particular emphasis is placed on metaphorical musical instruments and their voices in the literary and dramatic works. As the argument shows examples of drama William Shakespeare, Patrick Suskind, poetry of the twentieth century, and contemporary art cinema. This article discusses genetic and axiological parameters realization of the artistic reception of the generalizations through the image of a musical instrument.