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A.V. Morozova's article deals with the development of Art criticism and Spanish Art research in Russia starting from 1917 up to the present time This sphere has not been investigated in research literature so far. But the knowledge of stages of this development allows us to be better oriented in the historiography of the old Spanish Art of the 15th-18th century. It seems important to take into consideration these stages when analyzing Russian historiography of the Spanish art in the 20th century. The author has an...

From the beginning of its history, film has been considered as ideal synergy of art forms, including painting, literature, music and dance. †Moving pictures' on artists and art belong to a particular group of films. Traditionally, Muses were connected with movement. even today, artists produce images of muses dancing in circle: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Thalia, Terpsyhore and Urania. In my article I write about Cinema as †the Tenth Muse', who quickens the imagination of a film dire...

Composers who have not only created some new operatic forms but have also verbally expressed their respective ideas are understood as the opera reformers. Among them may be named Gluck, Wagner, and Debussy: the latter managed to show another possible path which, as a matter of actual practice, turned out to be different from that of Wagner. The great opera reform is also worth mention: that entails the grounding of the notions of prima pratica and seconda pratica by Vincenzo Galilei and Claudio Monteverdi. Bernd Z...

Debussy's aspiration for novelty of form is embodied in the unique synthesis of procedural and architectonical aspects of form-building: the architectonical profile of form is only a “spatial trace” of intensive evolution of musical material (the structure of the whole as the having become one is the result of all the varieties of the becoming of material). This feature of Debussy's music was determined by the desire to rely on the natural laws of development, not only perceived intuitively, but also understoo...

The byzantine art is the cultural and spiritual emanation of the most enduring form of government in history: the Byzantine Empire. These forms of faith and art have survived to the present day undergoing an outstanding independently historical evolution, free from the conditions that initially created them. A unique event in human history. The characteristics of these forms of art are the spiritual unity, the specificity of each one and the complexity of the cultural system that supports it.

This paper explores transcription and reconstruction problems of manuscript musical sources preserved in new German organ tablature notation. The printed form of this musical notation was used for the first time by Elias Nicolas Ammerbach (ca. 1530 – 1597) in his work Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur [Organ or Instrumental Tablature] (1571). Later, in 17th-century Central Europe, it was used in Lutheran churches mainly to write manuscripts with vocal (or vocal-instrumental) compositions, so-called intabulation. A...

The problem of the symmetry of key relationship is one of specific problems in the theory of music which has a great urgency for studying of tonal music of Modern times. Opened by english musicologist E. Prout it gained the development in works of the soviet scientists (I. V. Spossobin, L. M. Rudolf, A. N. Dolzhanskiy, Yu. N. Tyulin, M. A. Iglitskiy, Yu. G. Kohn, L. A. Mazel, S. S. Grigoryev, Yu. N. Kholopov). The studying of this problem led to understanding of a divergence between known theories and the real pra...

According to the teaching of the Orthodox Church, the sacred image has existed and is just as old as Christianity itself, which is why one can say that the sacred image is an indispensable attribute of the Christian religion. From an Orthodox perspective, the icon, understood as perceptible representation of the Divine, is not a simple sacred image, because, through it, the believers are given the possibility of an authentic connection to the world of God and of the Saints. The iconographic representations are the...

16th century was the most important century on the history of Ottoman architecture not only because it was its Golden Age of Empire economically, but also Architect Sinan, the head architect of dynasty had lived in that era. As the head architect of dynasty, Architect Sinan designed different building types on private, public and religious usage, such as bridges, aqueducts, Turkish baths, mosque complexes including darulkuttap, darulhadis, medresahs and etc. However, his name is mostly known as the architect of we...

The author attempts to interpret Baudelaire's famous concept of “correspondences” in terms of the problem of the synthesis of the arts, which was of vital importance to the Romantics. According to Baudelaire, “correspondences” arise between the attributes abstracted from objects in the surrounding world, to which the poet assigned the status of signs. The author models an algorithm which transforms these signs into symbols in an artist's mind, shows possible outcomes, the most important of which is the “...

George Enescu's music was the result of a deeply personal Romanian synthesis of all the most important dominants of the century (Neo-classicism, Impressionism, national folkloric elements, Germanic tradition). The most complex Romanian musician of all times, he remains the composer with an individual symphonic profile in the orchestral art of the XXth century. The Enescian symphonic work (developed over the course of seven decades) is marked by obvious stylistic changes: the variety of compositional idioms constit...