“Lexical” approaches of material organization in the treatise “The key of understanding” by Tikhon Makaryevsky

Authors

  • Natal'ja Viktorovna Mosyagina Author

Abstract

“The Key of Understanding” is the most influential musical and theoretical
treatise of the end of 18 c. Its author is a monk TikhonMakaryevsky. He presented a
system of correlation between old Znamenny and a new for Russia Kievan notations.
The Key provides information about znamenny signs, phitas, persons and lines.
The information is presented as stroke marks with cinnabar marks and musical
and linear lines. Informative, communicative and normative functions inhere in
the musical and theoretical work. The purpose of “The Key” is a description of
the “vocabulary” of znamenny chants. The treatise is a work of a didactic nature
created to verify and extend the information about znamenny chants. From all the
materials “The Key” is a universal dictionary

Author Biography

  • Natal'ja Viktorovna Mosyagina

    Senior lecturer, Department of Old Russian Art
    of Singing, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory in 1999, founder and leader
    of the ensemble “The Key of Understanding”, author of 15 research papers, member of international scientific meetings and seminars

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Art History