The Music Theory Department Twenty Years After

Abstract

The Music Theory Department of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory: results and forecasts. The topicality of solutions made by Prof. Nazaykinsky in his unpublished article “The Music Theory Department [of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory]” (1991) and in a collective article of the Music Theory Department published in a jubilee volume “Moscow Conservatory, 1866–1966”. The Music Theory Department today: the problem of generational change, publications, general tasks.

Keywords

Music Theory Department of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Prof. Evgeny Nazaykinsky, alternative special courses, sectional structure of the department, the problem of generational change, publications, scientific fields and operational tasks of the Music Theory Department.