Abstract: The subject of this article is the problem of the poetics of genre style. Using modern music (or rather, the music of today) for its material, the article treats current issues of the historical-theoretical approach to the formation of musical genres. The author’s field of view takes in the works of many Russian composers, reflecting different trends and creative directions. On the one hand, the “triad” of epic – lyric – drama continues its historic path in modern compositions, while on the other new genre forms are arising that require special analytical approaches and means of analysis.In raising these topics, the author offers a number of considerations regarding possible methods of musical study, dictated by “prestructural” and structural models.The task of moment here – identifying the characteristic features of genre formation in today's music – brings out a number of conclusions whose novelty will serve to further scholarly research. The artistic features that determine the conditions for the identity of genres and their potential for development and transformation are brought together by the author. The style of a work of art, entering the dense layers of semiotics and hermeneutics, continues to be a significant Diskursanalyse.

Keywords: historical-theoretical approach, poetics of genre style, methods of musicology, analysis of a selected composition, classification of genres, problem of genre, piece of music, modern music, the problem of genre formation