The Dissertation Committee of the Novosibirsk Conservatory is 20 Years Old

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Boris A. Shindin

Abstract

The author sums up the results of the 20-year activity of the
Dissertation Committee of the Novosibirsk State Conservatory
in defenses of dissertations for the academic degree of Candidate
of Arts and the academic degree of Doctor of Arts in the ield
of “The Art of Music,” No. 17.00.02. After a brief excursus
into the history of its creation, information is provided about
the structure of the Committee, represented by 18 Doctors of
Science – researchers of various branches of musical scholarship,
well-known in Russia. Notice is given of the main trends of
dissertations related to issues of historical and theoretical
musicology, philosophy and aesthetics, culturology, stylistic
orientations of the art of music, synaesthesia and interaction of
music with contiguous forms of art, studies of medieval music,
traditional and academic music of Siberia, the musical culture
of the countries of South, South-East Asia and Central Asia,
the Middle and Near East, studies of local musical lore, the
art of musical performance, musical education and pedagogy,
informational technologies and musical activities. The
geography of the Committee’s scholarly inluence is immense,
spanning the entire territory from Vladivostok and Khabarovsk
to St. Petersburg and Krasnodar. The author illuminates the
subject matter of defended dissertations (1-30, including 20
dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Arts), representing a
diverse palette of Russian musicology. Special mention is made
of dissertations the subject matter and academic level of which
are of special interest for present-day studies of the art of music.

Keywords: Dissertation Committee, Novosibirsk Conservatory,
scholarly trends in musicologists, Doctor of Arts,
Candidate of Arts, opponent, musical culture of Siberia

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How to Cite
Shindin, B. A. (2015). The Dissertation Committee of the Novosibirsk Conservatory is 20 Years Old. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 74–78. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2015.2.19.074-078
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Dissertational Committees
Author Biography

Boris A. Shindin, Novosibirsk State M. I. Glinka Conservatory

Doctor of Arts, Professor,
Head at the Music History Department