Music and Time Annotation << Back The Basic Principles of Musical Drama Animated Film "Laputa: The Castle in the Sky" Joe Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki (1986) T.M. Titova The article is devoted to specific issues relevant to contemporary art problems of the formation of the artistic image in the screen polysynthesis. For example, the animated film "Laputa: The Castle in the Sky" (1986) directed by Hayao Miyazaki and composer Joe Hisaishi justified dramaturgical importance of music Joe Hisaishi in the process of uncovering the artistic intent of the film. Scientific novelty and significance of the article is to identify characteristics of the interaction between music, speech and video series in the animated movie "Laputa: The Сastle in the Sky", the definition of expressive semantic significance of music in the screen polysynthesis, its influence on the extension of a figurative number, which is the process of combining music, speech, images, identifying features thematic development of the main topics of meaning and the shaping role of leittembr, leitintonation in the film music of Joe Hisaishi. Keywords: fi lm music, media culture, music, drama, animated fi lm "Laputa: The Сastle in the Sky", Joe Hisaishi. Contacts: E-mail: titovapianist@yandex.ru Pp. 16-26.