Music and Time Annotation << Back About the vocal cycle B.A. Tchaikovsky on verses by N.A. Zabolotsky "The last spring" T.G. Katsko Vocal music – contradictory unity of poetic and musical intonations, their union rivalry. The lyrical hero of the vocal work unites in himself the author-poet and the author-composer, and in merge of their voices, as a rule, the second predominates. The author of music kind of creates and fixes the deklamatsionny version of the poem. The offered notes are devoted to the vocal cycle B.A. Tchaikovsky on verses by N.A. Zabolotsky "The last spring" – to one of the best works in works of the composer. N. Zabolotsky`s poetry was spiritually close to the composer. Especially the subject of the nature into which unsolved mysteries both artists seek to get pulls together them. The thought of indissoluble communication of the person and the nature reveals also in the cycle "Last Spring". Building the concept, the composer selected the verses of different years (1932-1958) devoted to seasons – in correlation with "times" of human life. At all spiritual proximity of "co-authors", the musical interpretation of poetic texts always gives something new. By analogy with the concept "counter rhythm" (E.A. Ruchyevskaya) it is possible to speak about "counter composition", "counter intonation", as provides the new shades of sense which are more or less dispersing from hypothetical initial deklamatsionny intoning of the poem. In the course of the analysis attention will be paid to these features: to compliance of a form composition and figurative contents of verses and music, receptions of the rhythmic embodiment of the poetic text. Besides, means of association of a cycle are considered and also interpretation of the general concept of the work is offered. Keywords: vocal music, B.A. Tchaikovsky, N.A. Zabolotsky, "Last spring", "counter composition", form composition. Contacts: E-mail: tkatsko@mail.ru Pp. 38-52.