Music and Time Annotation << Back Francois Couperin’s «Musical Portraits» in the Context of the Synthesis of Arts I. Kirienko In the paper tendencies of the synthesis of arts in the West European music of the 17th and early 18th centuries are examined. Much consideration is given to the coordination of music and pictorial patterns in Francois Couperin’s creative work. While analyzing the composer’s pieces the author uses the semantic analysis method which yields the most comprehensive understanding of the content of a musical composition. E-mail: irius888@mail.ru Рр. 43–47