Music and Time Annotation << Back On August Halm’s Concept. To the Problem of «Energy» Interpretation of Musical Form M. Pylaev In the paper characteristic of German musicologist, music educationalist and composer August Otto Halm (1869–1929), almost unknown in Russia, is given. Being an adherent of aesthetic autonomy, Halm opposed so-called "old" musical hermeneutics and tried to comprehend music basing on music as such. Also the concept of two musical cultures due to Halm’s axiological and historical views as well as his energy interpretation of musical form realized in his original method of harmonic analysis are disclosed. Keywords: August Halm, musical form, harmony, two musical cultures. Рр. 8–10. E-mail: pylaevm@mail.ru