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Debussy's aspiration for novelty of form is embodied in the unique synthesis of procedural and architectonical aspects of form-building: the architectonical profile of form is only a “spatial trace” of intensive evolution of musical material (the structure of the whole as the having become one is the result of all the varieties of the becoming of material). This feature of Debussy's music was determined by the desire to rely on the natural laws of development, not only perceived intuitively, but also understoo...

The author attempts to interpret Baudelaire's famous concept of “correspondences” in terms of the problem of the synthesis of the arts, which was of vital importance to the Romantics. According to Baudelaire, “correspondences” arise between the attributes abstracted from objects in the surrounding world, to which the poet assigned the status of signs. The author models an algorithm which transforms these signs into symbols in an artist's mind, shows possible outcomes, the most important of which is the “...