One of a Kind in the Ural Region (About the Dissertation Committee of the Magnitogorsk State Conservatory)

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Mark M. Berlyanchik

Abstract

The article sheds light on the activities of the regional
Committee for the Defense of Dissertations in Pursuit of the
Academic Degrees of Candidate of Arts and Doctor of Arts in
the Field of Music, listed under number 17.00.02, according
to the Russian dissertational classification. The Committee,
which was established in 1997 on the base of the Magnitogorsk
State Conservatory, serves several conservatories of the Ural
Mountains region: Ekaterinburg, Magnitogorsk and Ufa. The
article gives information of the makeup of the Committee
(which presently includes 18 members) and indicates the names
of the Russian academicians and activists of culture and the arts
in the Ural region who have participated in its work during the
course of the 15 years of its existence. The main directions of
research are marked out, which include issues of philosophy
and musical aesthetics, problems of music theory, problems
of historical musicology, issues concerning the art of musical
performance, training of performing musicians, folk music of
the peoples of the Ural Mountains, interconnections between the
musical cultures of the different regions of Russia, as well as
those of other countries, sacred music, problems of development
of a system of music education, as well as the peculiarities of
development of musical culture and art in the different regions
of Russia (regional musical ethnography). The author of the
article analyzes the subject matter of the defended dissertations
(numbering 87) and notes their relevance and significance for
the development of the main directions in Russian musicology.
Names of the musicians are given who after the defense of the
dissertation with the Magnitogorsk Dissertation Committee have
been actively engaged in research, pedagogical and journalistic
activities.

Keywords: Dissertation Committee, Candidate of Arts,
Doctor of Arts, the Ural Mountains region, the Magnitogorsk
State Conservatory, the Ural State Conservatory, the Ufa State
Academy of the Arts

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How to Cite
Berlyanchik, M. M. (2013). One of a Kind in the Ural Region (About the Dissertation Committee of the Magnitogorsk State Conservatory). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 145–148. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/134
Section
Dissertational Committees
Author Biography

Mark M. Berlyanchik, The Magnitogorsk State M.I. Glinka Conservatory

Doctor of Arts
Deputy Chairman of the United Dissertation Committee