The sphere of musical professions is a combination of typical and novel activities. The new ones emerged with the development of social representations and technical capabilities. The aim of the research was to find key characteristics of musical specialists’ image of the world, which may detect differences between workers within the cognate professions. The psychosemantic method was used to assess clime attitude to professional activity. Three groups (sound engineers, musicians and non-musicians) were invited (N = 127). The obtained results demonstrated similar representations of the world in different groups. Factor analysis of semantic differential scales detected the availability of the same factor for two professional groups during the assessment of their own activities. However, there were specific intergroup differences in the assessment of their own and others’ professions. Discrepancies in semantic profiles in the image of professional activity unobserved aspects related to the dynamics of the work process and its significance was revealed for all groups. Moreover sound engineers evaluated their work more meaningfully, which is presumably associated with the content of the work. The obtained data allowed us to specify an understanding of the connection between the image of the world and professional activity and to reveal its psychosemantic features.

Image of the world characteristics as professional activity determinants in musical specialists