Music and Time Annotation << Back Intonation the beginning of music V.A. Koloney Anthropic foundations of music are examined in the article. Such foundations are intonational beginnings of music. Such foundations are intonational beginnings of music. The emergence of the intonational beginnings is connected with: first, with the use of physical properties of a sound Second, with the use of procedural components of musical intonation which were formed by humanity during the process of transforming physical properties into the above components. The procedural components of musical intonation are: tempo, rhythm, meter, melodics, dynamics, articulation, timbre, register, accent, agogics, tonality, key, modality, harmonic component, disseminating component. The heart muscle pumping blood, sustaining mother’s and child’s organisms reacts to any changes related to living situations. In fact, the human foetus “gets acquainted” with the components of musical intonation: tempo, rhythm, dynamics, articulation and agogics as a result of mother’s heart pulsation. Stable sound complexes – musical intonation components – have been formed during the centuries-old process of developing musical art. Indeed, a complex of the components of musical intonation is its structural formation having a semantic content but the components of musical intonation are its semantic units. Keywords: Intonation beginnings of music, components of musical intonation, anthropic, melody, prenatal period, ontogenesis. Contacts: - Pp. 15-19.