The moral and ethical problems of love in Volodymyr Ivasyuk’s creation

The subject of research is the moral and ethical issues of love in the songs by Volodymyr Ivasyuk on own poetic texts. The aim of the article is lighting of imaginative and conceptual characteristics of love in the composer’s works. The methodology is the implementation of musicological analysis of the songs ?Red Rue?, ?I'll go to the distant mountains?, ?Song will be among us?. The result of research is the distinction of emotional and semantic facets of reception the ?love? on poetry and music levels. In conclusion states that V. Ivasjuk not directly take the word ?love?, but the richness of the inner artist’s world evident in the characteristic of this sensation.