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The article focuses on a little-known piece of research On the Essence of Music and Russian Music written by composer and musicologist Mikhail Gnessin in 1915. The ideas expressed in this research have never been the subject of serious scientific discussion. Gnessin presents his views on the nature and content of music, examines concepts of “musical time” and “musical space”, “movement” in music, whilst also investigating the connection between the way a composer thinks and musical form, and finally, musical and “nonmusical” properties.
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Now St. Petersburg.
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Mazel’ and Zuckerman described their ideas in the following studies:
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Mazel’, Leo. 1937. Фантазия f-moll Шопена: Опыт анализа [Chopin’s F minor Fantasy: An Experiment in Analysis]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal’noe Izdatel’stvo;
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Zuckerman, Viktor. 1965. Целостный анализ музыкальных произведений и его методика [The Holistic Analysis of Musical Works and Its Methodology]. In Интонация и музыкальный образ [Intonation and Musical Image], Boris Iarustovskii (ed.): 264–320, Moscow: Muzyka;
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Mazel’, Leo. 1966. Эстетика и анализ [Aesthetics and Analysis]. In Советская музыка [Soviet Music] 12: 20–30, Moscow;
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Mazel’, Leo & Zuckerman, Viktor. 1967. Анализ музыкальных произведений: элементы музыки и методика анализа малых форм [Analysis of Musical Works: Elements of Music and a Methodology of Analysis of Small Forms]. Moscow: Muzyka; and others.
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Gnessin’s writings on the theory of musical reading, for example:
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Gnessin, Mikhail. 1921. Предисловие к “Сочинениям для голоса (музыкальное чтение и пение) и фортепиано” [Preface to “Music for Voice (Musical Reading and Singing) and Piano”]. Moscow: Proizvodstvenny Podotdel Muzykal’nogo Otdela N.K.P;
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Gnessin, Mikhail. 2008. Теория музыкального чтения. (8 мая 1922 г.) [The Theory of Musical Reading (May 8, 1922)]. In Вс. Мейерхольд и Мих. Гнесин. Собрание документов [Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail Gnessin. Collection of Documents], Irina Krivosheeva & Sergei Konaev (eds.): 62–63. Moscow: GITIS;
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Gnessin, Mikhail. 2008. О музыкальном чтении в драме (Сводная копия текстов М.Ф. Гнесина, составленная Е.Ю. Кистяковской) [On the Musical Reading. A Summary of Gnessin’s Texts Compiled by E. Kistiakovskaya]. In Вс. Мейерхольд и Мих. Гнесин. Собрание документов [Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail Gnessin. Collection of Documents], Irina Krivosheeva & Sergei Konaev (eds.): 116–137, Moscow: GITIS; and others.
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Gnessin wrote about Russian music in the following studies:
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Gnessin, Mikhail. 1918. Интернационализм и русская музыка [Internationalism and Russian Music]. In Искусство [The Art] 1: 11–12; 3: 12–14. Rostov-on-Don;
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Gnessin, Mikhail. 1919. Скрябин и колокольный звон в России [Scriabin and the Bell-Ringing in Russia]. In Лучи Солнца [The Rays of the Sun] 7: 39–47, Novocherkassk;
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Gnessin, Mikhail. 1948; 1949; 1950. О русском симфонизме (Эпический симфонизм и эпическая музыкально-сценическая драматургия) [On Russian Symphonism (Epic Symphonism and Epic Musical-Theatrical Drama)]. In Советская музыка [Soviet Music] 6: 44–50; 3: 50–54; 1: 78–82, Moscow;
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Gnessin, Mikhail. 1956. Мысли и воспоминания о Н.А. Римском-Корсакове [Thoughts and Memories About N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal’noe Izdatel’stvo;
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Gnessin, Mikhail. 2005. Анатолий Константинович Лядов. Публикация и комментарии М.А. Карачевской [Anatolii Konstantinovich Liadov. Publication and comments by Mariya Karachevskaya]. In Из личных архивов профессоров Московской консерватории, вып. 2 [From the Personal Archives of Professors of the Moscow Conservatory. Vol. 2], Galina Grigorieva (ed.): 132–164, Moscow; and others.
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See Laroche (1913).
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Karachevskaya, M. (2019). Mikhail Gnessin on the Essence of Music and Russian Music. In: Stanevičiūtė, R., Zangwill, N., Povilionienė, R. (eds) Of Essence and Context. Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14471-5_24
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