Regularities of Artistic-Historical Evolution

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Alexander I. Demchenko

Abstract

The author provides distinct criteria for such definitions of essential chronological measurements of artistic-historical evolution as stage, period, epoch and era. Evolutional process is investigated in detail within each epoch in regard to some characteristic features of constituent periods; their inevitable changes being proved both by the natural movement from the origin to disappearance and by the interaction of the two determinative ways of artistic thinking (romanticism and realism, that respond to the notions of classicism and positivism). On the basis of the revealed development stages, the author makes a conclusion about the gradual acceleration of the artistic-historical process and rhythmical interchange of its phases that can be metaphorically called light and shadow. Hence, possibilities to make predictions are stated; these can be applied to general historical evolution as a whole.

Keywords: essential constituents of the artistic-historical process

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Demchenko, A. I. (2011). Regularities of Artistic-Historical Evolution. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 9(2), 48–53. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/526
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Music in the System of Culture