Music and Time Annotation << Back Intellectual comic – from aesthetic to musicology N.V. Danilova The article is devoted to the variety of forms and semantic richness of the aesthetic comic category as a «true universal art». The comic category goes back to centuries-old historical memory of culture. The comic is changeable and elusive, its Proteus nature encourages constant movement and development, it changes it specificities depending on the historical, stylistic, genre and other contexts. The author is interested in the continuity of philosophical and musical - aesthetic concepts of humor, based on a common approach to the perception of humor as a process of solving hidden meanings, their understanding and comprehension. The artists turn to the optics of the comic to express the acute, paradoxical content. It is designed to encourage people to intellectual activity in the detection of semantic vectors of art works. Keywords: aesthetic category of comic, humor in music, philosophical concepts of humor, intellectual perception of comic, ironic reflection, comic modality. Contacts: E-mail: n.danilova@bk.ru Pp. 55-59.