The Category of “Musical Content” in the Music Theory Legacy of Yuri Nikolayevich Kholopov

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Valentina N. Kholopova

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This article makes the point that Yuri Nikolayevich Kholopov is best known as the author of works on harmony and musical form; at the same time, being a highly qualified musician, he perceived music in its entirety. Therefore, in many of his texts he examines the category of “content” and an entire set of important concepts connected with it: in his books on musical form and harmony, in his monographic book on Webern and his article on Boulez. The concepts dealing with content that were especially important for him were: spiritual (not only in the religious sense, but also in the broad humanitarian aspect), beauty, imagery and expressivity (on the basis of modal-harmonic analysis).

Keywords: Yuri Kholopov, musical content, spirituality and beauty in a musical composition

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Kholopova, V. N. (2012). The Category of “Musical Content” in the Music Theory Legacy of Yuri Nikolayevich Kholopov. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 11(2), 6–11. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/394
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Horizonts of Musicology