Philosophical and anthropological foundations of Asafiev's intonation theory

The need to study the creative heritage of B.V. Asafiev the famous Russian musicologist and philosopher of the early twentieth century is due to the anthropological orientation of his intonation teaching. The philosophical interest to the theoretical heritage of B.V. Asafiev seems to be a deeply natural phenomenon. The intonation doctrine as the concept of artistic and figurative comprehension of the human life world is developed by B.V. Asafiev in the context of ideas about music as an organic element of culture. This allows us to consider intonation as a fundamental phenomenon rooted in human existence. It has ontological and anthropological status as it is associated with the ability of man to sound symbolization of phenomena can express the spiritual state of the personality its attitude to reality and the meaning of cultural phenomena.