Contemporary Musicology

Dear Colleagues,
Contemporary Musicology starts series of issues devoted to Russian musicological schools and trends. The next issues will be devoted to the activities of two professors of Gnessins Russian Academy of Music, who celebrated anniversary in 2021. These are Larissa Lvovna Gerver and Irina Samoilovna Stogny. Long-term research and pedagogical work of these scholars led to emergence of their own schools. Their ideas and research principles were taken up and developed by their students.
In April 2021, the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music hosted the 4th International Conference “Musical Composition: Historical Avatars”, which was attended by more than 100 researches from Russia, Austria, Britain, German, France, the USA, and other countries. For the first time, new sessions appeared: “Analytical Concepts and Semiotics of the Musical Language: To the Anniversary of Irina Stogny” and “Theory and History of Musical Composition: To the Anniversary of Larissa Gerver”.
The name session by Irina S. Stogny included the following reports:

Vera Sadokova, PhD, executive editor of the Scholarly Papers of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia – The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky: parallels and interactions
Vera Val’kova, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies), Full Professor, Music History Department, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow – Microprocesses in Music: Ways of Scientific Studies
Yulia Galatenko, PhD, philologist, Göttingen, Germany – Erlkönig: Paradoxes of Interpretation
Alexandra Maximova, PhD, Associate Professor, Russian Music History Department, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia – Semantics of Orchestral Timbres in Ballet Scores by С. Сavos
Tamara Tverdovskaya, PhD, Associate Professor, Western Music History Department, vice rector on research activity, Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, Saint Petersburg, Russia – Variations on a Rococo Theme op. 33 — ‘L’Isle Joyeuse’ in the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Work (On the Three Semantic Components of the Musical Composition)
Irina Stogny, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies), Full Professor, Analytical Musicology Department Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow – R. Strauss’s Ballet The Legend of Joseph. Musical interpretation of the biblical story
Olga Skrynnikova, PhD, Associate Professor, Head of Music History Department, Voronezh State Institute of Arts, Voronezh, Russia – Stylistic Images of the Opera Nightingale by Stravinsky
Alla Korobova, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies), Full Professor, Music Theory Department, Ural State Mussorgsky Conservatoire, Yekaterinburg, Russia – Semantics of Dialogue in Luciano Berio’s Symphony
Konstantin Zenkin, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies), Full Professor, vice rector on research activity, Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia – Mobility of Models as a Factor of Style Renewal: On the Example of Rachmaninov’s Piano Oeuvre
Tatiana Maslovskaya, PhD, Full Professor, Music History Department, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia – Georgy Sviridov and Alexander Blok: in Dialogues
Andrei Denisov, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies), Full Professor, Western Music History Department, Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, Saint Petersburg, Russia – Secret Messages and Ciphers: The Phenomenon of Cryptocitation in the Musical Art   

Evgenia Skurko, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Cultural Studies), Full Professor,Music Theory Department, Ufa State Institute of Arts named after Z. Ismaguilov, Ufa, Russia – Musical Composition in the Context of the Stadium Development of National Cultures in the 20th — 21st Centuries

Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Full Professor, Trento Conservatory (Conservatorio "F.A. Bonporti" di Trento e Riva del Garda - Edison Studio), Trento, Italy – Exploring the Music of Speech through Computer Assisted Composition Tools

Oksana Sheludyakova, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies), Full Professor, Music Theory Department, Ural State Mussorgsky Conservatoire, Yekaterinburg, Russia – Problems of Composition in the Orthodox Worship Service (Text and Its Metamorphoses)
Ekaterina Vlasova, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies), Full Professor, Russian Music History Department, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia – First Soviet Musical Organizations (1918–1923): The Problem of Creating a New Musical Language
Irina Sinitsa, PhD, Junior Researcher, Russian Institute of Art History, Saint Petersburg, Russia – Stylistic Influences on M.O. Steinberg's Symphony No. 2: Towards the Problem of the Creative Process
Anastasia Khlyupina, 4th year student, Faculty of Musical science and Composition, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia. Scientific adviser – Ekaterina Vlasova, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies) – Lolita by R. Shchedrin: Stage Interpretations of ‘Composer Directing’ in Changing Times
Yuliya Kosheleva, 4th Уear student, Music Theory Department, Z. Ismagilov Ufa State Art Institute, Ufa, Russia. Scientific adviser – Evgeniya Skurko, Dr. Habil. (Doctor of Art Studies) – The Perculiarities of Intonational Dramaturgy in Pianoforte Cycle Evangelical Pictures by I. Sokolov

This issue of Contemporary Musicology dedicated to Irina Stogny includs an interview with her, and the articles that related with her main areas of research. There are musical semiotics, questions of the correlations of music and literary text, problems of microprocesses in musical composition, musicology in relation to other humanities.

                                                              Irina P. Susidko