Music and Time Annotation << Back Two Hundred Years Ago. Great Source Chamber and Vocal Works S.V. Tarasov Despite a long history of development astronomical songs of Franz Schubert, who wrote more than six hundred works in this genre was destined to discover the true life Lied. So great a legacy as enormous and on its artistic value. It starts with the great diversity of all that is, all facets of human life, presented in rich range of gradations and nuances. To ensure an exceptionally wide amplitude revealed by Schubert situations, States, and attitudes, it is enough to refer to its extreme poles, forming the antithesis of existence: light and darkness, delight in the blessings of existence and denial, life and death. If we turn first to the «left», the Lightbringer of these two poles, we find, on the one hand, the extraordinary excitement, the fervent burning of the force, finding himself in irrepressible thirst for action, and on the other not less attractive joy peace of mind and inviting the peace of the spirit. «Right» the shadow pole of the imaginative world of vocal music Schubert demonstration presented in the second half of the cycle «the Beautiful Miller’s wife», which tells of the torments of the soul, but the full force of this drama unfolded a few years later, following the song cycle «Winter journey». System of oppositions of the polarized entities of the imaginative world of songs, Schubert has reached its climax in the last samples of this genre, included in the collection «Swan song». Keywords: the songs of Franz Schubert, polarized essence of their imaginative world. Contacts: E-mail: soprano2015@yandex.ru Pp. 37-42.