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Russian Theoretical Thought in Music UMI Research Press Russian Music Studies THOMAS J. BATA LI BRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/russiantheoreticOOOOunse Russian Theoretical Thought in Music Russian Music Studies, No. 10 Malcolm Hamrick Brown, Series Editor Professor of Music Indiana University Other Titles in This Series No. 1 Nationalism, Modernism, and Personal Rivalry in Nineteenth-Century Russian Music Robert C. Ridenour No. 2 Opera and Drama in Russia: As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s Richard Taruskin No. 3 Musorgsky: In Memoriam, 1881-1981 Malcolm Hamrick Brown, ed. No. 4 Musorgsky’s Days and Works: A Biography Alexandra Orlova in Documents Roy J. Guenther, trans. No. 5 A Book about Stravinsky Boris Asafyev Richard F. French, trans. No. 6 Vladimir Stasov and Russian National Culture Yuri Olkhovsky No. 7 Stravinsky’s Early Ballets Irina Vershinina L.G. Heien, trans. No. 8 Stravinsky and the Piano Charles M. Joseph No. 9 Khandoshkin and the Beginning of Russian String Music Anne Mischakoff Russian Theoretical Thought in Music Edited by Gordon D. McQuere UMI RESEARCH PRESS Ann Arbor, Michigan Copyright © 1983 Gordon Daniel McQuere All rights reserved Produced and distributed by UMI Research Press an imprint of University Microfilms International Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Russian theoretical thought in music. (Russian music studies ; no. 10) Bibliography: p. Includes index. Contents: Russian thought in music theory : a conspectus / Ellon D. Carpenter - Sources of Russian chant theory / Nicolas Schidlovsky - The theories of Boleslav Yavorsky / Gordon D. McQuere - [etc.] 1. Music-Soviet Union-Theory-History. I. McQuere, Gordon D. II. Series. ML300.R77 1983 781’.0947 83-9097 ISBN 0-8357-1457-8 Contents Introduction vii Allen Forte Russian Music Theory: A Conspectus 1 Ellon D. Carpenter Sources of Russian Chant Theory 83 Nicolas Schidlovsky The Theories of Boleslav Yavorsky 109 Gordon D. McQuere Varvara Dernova’s System of Analysis of the Music of Skryabin Roy J. Guenther Boris Asafiev and Musical Form as a Process 217 Gordon D. McQuere The Contributions of Taneev, Catoire, Conus, Garbuzov, Mazel, and Tiulin 253 Ellon D. Carpenter Taneev 253 Catoire 273 Conus 293 Garbuzov 313 Mazel 329 Tiulin 344 Glossary 379 Index 385