Textological Aspects of Musicology in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Progress-Tradition Moscow

         The writing and publication of this book was financed by the Russian Foundation for the Humanities (RGNF) and subsequently by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), into which the RGNF was incorporated in 2016.

         This book was designated as Project No. ... by the RGNF and is registered as Project No. 16-04-17001 by the RFBR.

Tatyana Naumenko








Textological Aspects of Musicology in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

This edition is financially supported by
the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Investigations on project № 16-04-17001, not to be sold






        Tatyana Naumenko

       Textological Aspects of Musicology in Russia and the Former Soviet Union. -М.: publishers «Progress-Tradition», 2017. - 448 p.

   ISBN 978-5-89826-495-1

       In this monograph, Tatyana Naumenko, Doctor of Arts and a professor at Moscow’s Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, looks at modern Russian musicology through the prism of texts representing it. She mentions subjects addressed in musicological studies, names genres of music that scholars preference to explore, and describes modern methods of research and criteria of assessment, largely with the aim of overcoming Soviet-era dogmatism. Special consideration is given to the writing of academic degree dissertations on music in the former Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The Annex lists dissertations approved between 1970 and 2013.














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Table of contents




Introduction ....................................................................15

Chapter 1
“POST”-ERA PARADOXES ............................................................23
Contemporary style in terms and notions..........................................23
Cult of innovations in epoch of nostalgia........................................30
About “Time of musicologists”....................................................39

Chapter 2
SOME HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF MUSICOLOGICAL TEXT ...................................55
Scholarly sources and parameters of musicology ..................................55
Acquisition of status............................................................67
Text and the state ..............................................................82

Chapter 3
POST-SOVIET DECONSTRUCTIONS.....................................................104
Deconstructing official prescriptions for what subjects to choose for research .104
Deconstruction of myths.........................................................116
Deconstruction of scholarly boundaries .........................................128

Chapter 4
WAYS OF RENEWAL OF TEXT ........................................................144
In search of a name ...............................................144
In search of the right genre: the problem of prefaces..............152
In search of description methods...................................163

Chapter 5
SCIENTIFIC TEXT AS INTERPRETATION:
AUTHORS’ APPROACHES ............................................................178
Spiritual music space ..........................................................178
Mozart and time.................................................................184
Again about Shostakovich........................................................190

Chapter 6
DISSERTATIONS ON CATEGORY 17.00.02
(THE ART OF MUSIC) SUBJECTS AS A FIELD OF SOVIET AND RUSSIAN MUSICOLOGY ......................................................205
The place of musicology in the system of scholarly degrees and awards.............205
Before and after 1991........................................................212
Thesis boom and parasite texts ..............................................217

Chapter 7
MUSICOLOGISTS SPEAK ON MUSICOLOGY............................................227
Levon akopyan: ‘modern musicological literature must be interesting to read’.227
Nikolai Denisov on the study of the old Russian art of church singing: ‘a church service is a synthesis of all arts with its rules, text, and singing ........246
Natalya Gulyanitskaya: ‘Research is my state of mind, my aspiration, my necessity.256
Irina Susidko: ‘Old cliches are fortunately receding into the past................260
Andreas Wehrmeyer on contemporary German musicology..........................265

Conclusion...................................................................268

Annex EXPLANATORY NOTES............................................................270



Section I
DISSERTATIONS FOR THE DEGREES OF CANDIDATE OF ARTS
AND DOCTOR OF ARTS APPROVED IN THE 1970S AND 1980S ..........................273

1970-1979....................................................................273
Genres ......................................................................273
Foreign music................................................................273
Music and other arts.........................................................276
Music of peoples of Russia...................................................276
Music of peoples of the former Soviet Union .................................276
Urban musical life and music culture ........................................279
Perception of music..........................................................279
Performance and teaching of music ...........................................279
Non-european cultures .......................................................281
Russian music................................................................281
Soviet music ................................................................283
Problems of theory ..........................................................284
Church singing culture ......................................................285
Ethnomusicology..............................................................286

1980-1990...................................................................286
Genres and styles...........................................................286
Foreign music...............................................................287
The art of church bell ringing .............................................291
Concerts ...................................................................291
Music and other arts........................................................291
Music of peoples of Russia..................................................291
Music of peoples of the former soviet union.................................292
Perception of music.........................................................297
Performance and teaching of music ..........................................297
Musicology and music criticism..............................................299
Non-european cultures ......................................................300
Russian music...............................................................301
Soviet music ...............................................................302
Problems of theory .........................................................305
The culture of church singing...............................................307
Ethnomusicology.............................................................308




Section II
DISSERTATIONS FOR THE DEGREES OF CANDIDATE AND DOCTOR OF ARTS APPROVED AFTER 1991 .................................310

ARCHIVES, MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, AND OTHER SOURCES.......................................................310

GENRES .................................................................311
General problems and inter-genre interaction............................311
Opera ..................................................................311
Ballet .................................................................312
Symphonies and symphonic poems .........................................312
Instrumental genres and ensemble music..................................312
Quartets and quintets...................................................313
Choral music ...........................................................313
Chamber vocal music and song genres.....................................313
Piano...................................................................314
Organ ..................................................................314
Music for string instruments: violin ...................................315
Cello ..................................................................315
Wind instruments .......................................................315
Folk instruments .......................................................315
Mass musical events.....................................................316
Jazz and non-canonic music genres.......................................316

FOREIGN MUSIC ....................................................318

WESTERN EUROPEAN MUSIC OF THE PRE-CLASSICAL
AND EARLY CLASSICAL PERIODS ......................................318
The music of the pre-classical period in its historical evolution.318
Genres ...........................................................319
     Composers....................................................320
Baroque: trends of style and genre ...............................320
     Composers....................................................322

WESTERN EUROPEAN MUSIC OF THE CLASSICAL ERA.......................324
Style trends......................................................324
Genres ...........................................................325
     Composers....................................................325

WESTERN EUROPEAN 19TH-CENTURY MUSIC ..............................327
Style trends......................................................327
Genres ...........................................................327
     Composers....................................................328

WESTERN EUROPEAN MUSIC
OF THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY ..........................331
Finnish music ....................................................331
French music .....................................................331
     Composers....................................................332
     American music of the 17th to the 19th century...............333

FOREIGN 19TH-CENTURY MUSIC .......................................333
Genres, styles, and forms.........................................333
     Austrian music...............................................334
     British music ...............................................335
     Bulgarian music..............................................335
     Hungarian music..............................................335
     German music ................................................336
     Italian music................................................337
     Spanish music ...............................................337
     Norwegian music .............................................337
     Polish music.................................................337
     United States................................................338
     Finnish music ...............................................339
     French music ................................................339
     Czech music..................................................340
     Swiss music .................................................340

INSTRUMENTATION AND ORGANOLOGY .......................................340

HISTORY OF MUSIC EDUCATION AND CONCERT INSTITUTIONS.............................................343

THE ART OF CHURCH BELL RINGING ......................................344

AUDIO RECORDINGS, MUSIC IN THE MEDIA, AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY...........................................345

MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS.................................................345

MUSIC OF PEOPLES OF RUSSIA ..........................................347
Muslim traditions in Russia’s culture ...............................347
Adygea...............................................................347
Bashkortostan .......................................................348
Buryatia.............................................................349
Dagestan ............................................................349
Kalmykia.............................................................349
Karachai-Cherkessia and Balkaria ....................................350
Karelia..............................................................350
Mariy El.............................................................350
Mordovia.............................................................350
Ossetia..............................................................350
North Caucasus.......................................................351
Siberia and the Russian Far East.....................................351
Tatarstan............................................................352
Tyva.................................................................354
Udmurtia.............................................................355
Chuvashia ...........................................................355
Yakutia .............................................................355

TEACHING OF MUSIC....................................................356
General points ......................................................356
Vocal music..........................................................356
Harmony .............................................................357
The teaching of children and primary education ......................357
Wind instruments ....................................................357
Musical theatre .....................................................358
Solfege and training of musical ear .................................358
String instruments...................................................358
Piano................................................................358
Choral music ........................................................359

PERCEPTION OF MUSIC .................................................359

ART OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE ..........................................................360
General aspects of interpretation..................................................360
Vocal music........................................................................360
Conducting.........................................................................361
Wind and percussion instruments ...................................................361
The art of accompaniment...........................................................362
Folk instruments ..................................................................362
String instruments.................................................................363
Piano and organ....................................................................364
Choir performance..................................................................366

REGIONAL MUSIC STUDIES AND URBAN MUSIC CULTURE ....................................366
Vyatka ............................................................................366
Russian Far East and Siberia: Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, and Chita .367
Don area: Rostov-on-Don and Novocherkassk..........................................367
Yekaterinodar .....................................................................368
Kursk .............................................................................368
Volga area: Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, and Saratov ...........................368
Simbirsk...........................................................................369
Tambov.............................................................................369
Tver...............................................................................369
Urals: Yekaterinburg, Magnitogorsk, Orenburg, and Chelyabinsk......................369

CONTENT OF MUSIC ..................................................................370

MUSICOLOGY, MUSIC CRITICISM, HISTORY OF MUSIC
THEORY DOCTRINES, AND PUBLICATION
OF SCORES AND BOOKS ON MUSIC ......................................................371

NATIONAL SCHOOLS ..................................................................373
Dialogues of cultures .............................................................373
Azerbaijan ........................................................................373
Armenia............................................................................373
Belarus............................................................................374
Kazakhstan.........................................................................374
Lithuania..........................................................................374
Latvia.............................................................................374
Moldova............................................................................375
Tajikistan.........................................................................375
Turkmenistan.......................................................................375
Ukraine ...........................................................................375
Estonia............................................................................375