The Beginning of Learning Musical Notation for Any Vocal Music – the Second Treatise by Nicolaus Dylecki?

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Anna V. Bulycheva

Abstract

The article is devoted to mysterious words from Nicolaus Dylecki’s treatise Musical Grammar: “As I Said in Tikhon’s Musikia…”. These words are included to the third version of Musical Grammar, written by Dylecki in 1678–1679 for Grigory Stroganov. Until recent time, they were interpreted in the scientific literature as irrefutable evidence of Dylecki’s collaboration with Tikhon Makarievsky in writing the treatise Klyuch razumeniya (The Key of Knowledge), while Eugeny Vorobiev, relying on the newly discovered handwritten source The Key of Knowledge, has not proved the impossibility of such cooperation. This article proposes a hypothesis, which text was meant by Dylecki. After mentioning “Tikhon’s Musikia”, he tells further about two modes system, merry (major) and sad (minor) modes. The idea was innovative for that time. Among the extant Russian musical treatises of the 17th century last third, it is presented in only two ones: Musical Grammar by Dylecki and anonymous treatise The Beginning of Learning Musical Notation for Any Vocal Music. The content of the last one corresponds with Dyleckiʼs Musical Grammar, at the same time, complementing the classification of clefs. Our hypothesis is that Dylecki was the author of The Beginning
of Learning… and initially wrote down this short, capacious text on blank sheets in a copy
of The Key of Knowledge by Tikhon Makarievsky that belonged to Stroganov and has not survived.


Keywords: Nicolaus Dylecki, Musical Grammar, Tikhon Makarievsky, The Key of Knowledge, partes music.

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Bulycheva А. В. (2023). The Beginning of Learning Musical Notation for Any Vocal Music – the Second Treatise by Nicolaus Dylecki?. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 51(2), 58–64. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1445
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From the History of Domestic Musical Culture
Author Biography

Anna V. Bulycheva, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia

PhD (Arts), Associate Professor at the History of Foreign Music Department