Music and Time Annotation << Back «Music speech» of Edison Denisov’s Piano Works N. Gataullina The article deals with a phenomenon of Edison Denisov’s music speech. This comprehensive term reflects precisely the peculiarities of the composer’s individual style and can be applied to the full to his piano works. The aim of the author’s review of Denisov’s musical expression means is to reveal the main parameters of his «piano music speech», i.e. timbre and sound, timbre sonorous sounding or sonorous colour, timbre and intonation technique – intonation colour. Basing on the analysis of Denisov’s piano works («Signs on white», «Dots and lines», «Three pieces», etc.) the author concludes that in his music speech the composer uses new parameters and criteria, which makes him one of the leaders in the area of musical expression means among the composers of the new time. Keywords: E. Denisov, V. Kandinsky, K. Debussy, music speech, musical expression means, impressionism, piano, piano works. Contacts: E-mail: nellya@list.ru Pp. 13-20.