Debbie Fortnum - The Music Box Dancer

At the same time, little attention was paid to expressive means, thematic development processes. In Russia, the first textbooks that found application in the study of musical forms were the works “Theory of Music” by G. Hess de Calvet (1818), “A Compilation Textbook” by I. Fuchs (1830) and “A Complete Guide to Composing Music” by I. K. Gunke (1859-63). In 1883-84, Russian translations of the “Textbook of Instrumental Music Forms” (“Musikalische Formenlehre”, 1878) by German musicologist L. Busler appeared; in 1901, textbooks by the English scholar E. Praout,published in two volumes under the names "Musical form" ("Musical form", 1891, Russian translation. 1900) and "Applied forms" ("Applied forms", 1895, Russian translation. B. ). From the works of Rus. musesThe figures stand out: the textbook by A. S. Arensky “A Guide to the Study of the Forms of Instrumental and Vocal Music” (1893-94), which contained in a compressed and simplified form descriptions of the most important musical forms; the study of G. L. Catoire “Musical form” (parts 1–2, 1934–36), which in the 1930s It was also used as a textbook for musicologists. Successes in the development of domestic musicology after the Great October Revolution contributed to the rapid flowering of the doctrine of muses. form. This led to a radical revision of the traditional course of A. m. A new course was created in the 30s.