Hence the "canonical" musical style, low severity in him individually-author the beginning. In the professional work of a mature musical cultures music is gradually freed from direct dependence on the word, dance, ritual context. Since the late Middle Ages (XV century), especially during the Renaissance in Europe for the first time developed forms of so-called stand-alone music (on G.Besseleru "prepodnosimye," that is designed exclusively for hearing), there was an independent logic of composer's thinking, she stood apart composer profession . In modern times (since the Baroque period) "application" component of the continued existence of a so-called program music, but there were parallel to the idea of "inherent nature" of music, one of the most popular in the XIX century - the idea of absolute music. In the work of avant-garde artists of the XX century "autonomous" vector of the history of music reached another climax - the composers gave their writings headers, eliminating kakie-libo association with familiar genres and forms (eg, "Five Pieces for Orchestra" Webern, "Structures" Boulez "Track number 2 "Ustvolskaya, etc.), or the works attributed titles were purely arbitrary.