The author reflects on the issues raised in R. Ingarden’s article The Work of Music and the Problem of Its Identity. He considers them and presents them in a new light. This author believes that the musical works exist as special relations between special objects. At the same time, he refuses to consider musical creativity a product of human consciousness. In his opinion, consciousness only accepts or rejects musical phrases that present themselves as a product of unconscious brain activity.

The article addresses prosodic characteristics of the new intonation contour which can be observed in spontaneous speech in the contemporary Russian language. The study focuses on the attempt made to identify the most relevant criteria of this new intonation construction and to explain the reasons underlying its occurrence.