Music and Time Annotation << Back A. Knaifel’s «Lux Aeterna»: Poetics of Concealed Meanings V. Goriunova The paper covers A. Knaifel’s composition for two cellists – psalm-singers «Lux aeterna». It attracts our attention to the important peculiarity of the composer’s creative work – poetics of concealed meanings which manifests itself in several aspects such as special method of interaction of music and lyrics and individual implementation of requiem genre. The composition is examined from the point of view of correspondence to the requiem genre and the particular work with the words specifically using of the hidden (concealed) words. The using of the hidden (concealed) words is a special feature of the composer’s work since his «Agnus Dei» in which it was applied for the first time. The reasons of using of the hidden words are determined and the different levels of concealment are revealed. Keywords: A. Knaifel, requiem, «Lux Aeterna», hidden words, antiphon Contacts: E-mail: gorunovavera@mail.ru Pp. 18-24.