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To make a wide circle of readers acquainted with the achievements of the phenomenological thought, the article presents an attempt to explicate certain problems of musical education using the tools of phenomenological analysis. The essence of musical practice is presented in terms of E. Husserl's and M. Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Using M. Merleau-Ponty's concept of corporeity and the primordial openness of consciousness, some aspects of musical playing such as the problem of individual style or the problem of playing habituation are interpreted. The gestures and movements of the musician are interpreted as intentional movement of incarnated subjectivity, mastering the space of music and expressing its meaning.