Is music just an outward form? Some philosophical issues of aesthetics in G. Shpets’s works

. In the article the aspect of perception of philosophy of art is represented aesthetically from the point of view of a national philosopher, psychologist and art theorist, founder of Russian hermeneutics G. Shpet. His conception of questions of correlation between philosophy and art, art and life are analyzed. Reviewed in the article are the questions of correlation between art and beauty, beauty and meaning; the author attempts to de-fine the role and function of decoration in art. The article covers a question of reality and copyism in the aspect of creativity as well as the role of an artist in the creative process and differential characteristics of artistic sight. Philosophical categories of the form and nature in the context of art, as well as conception of categories of outer and inner subject of aesthetics are considered. The author also provides a general outline of musical art from the point of view of G. Shpet. In accordance with such understanding, an attempt is made of working out the problem of form and nature of music, its definition of outer and inner form and relevant meanings of expression, correlation between music and other forms of art. It is suggested that music belongs to temporal and plastic forms of art, due to its specificity of forms of existence and means of expressing reality as well as its appropriated language.