Music and Time Annotation << Back About essence in music and the verbal speech of phenomena of intoning, pronunciation and an articulation M.I. Imkhanitskii The article proposes a new look at the issues of musical articulation, in many similar speech articulations. In contrast to the understanding of articulation as an art of the relationship of coherence with the distinctiveness of a pronounced for a long time, the first criterion of clarity of articulation is its clarity, with important additional criteria of fusion with separation, reduction and extension of the emitted sound. The article also reveals the general and differences between the concepts of pronunciation, intonation, phrasing. Keywords: articulation, accent and softness of sound, intonation, pro-attitude, phrasing. Contacts: E-mail: mikhimkh@yandex.ru Pp. 26-33.