Music and Time Annotation << Back Some Problems of Contemporary Music Through the Eyes of Contemporary Musicologist A.M. Gosteva The appearance of today’s musical space is a very complex mixture of bright shocking, conceptual and intellectual, autisticdetachment, sometimes inaudible, and sometimes even visible structures. Behind all this is not always hidden essential component of music. This situation has identified a number of issues that are relevant not only for music fans, but also for the professionals – musicologists, performers, and composers themselves. How to execute? How to evaluate? How to comprehend? How to listen? These and many other questions are concerned with contemporary practitioners and theorists. Some of the «hot spots» of contemporary musical art focus of this essay. Keywords: contemporary music, problem analysis, professionalism, musicology, actual music. Contacts: E-mail: anish79@mail.ru Pp. 06-08.