Yuri Nikolayevich Tyulin

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Arkady I. Klimovitsky

Abstract

The article is devoted to the legacy of one of the greatest Russian scholars, Yuri Nikolayevich Tyulin (1893–
1978), the creator of fundamental concepts of music theory, which were developed by him in various branches
of musical scholarship: mode, harmony, texture, musical thematicism, motives, musical syntax and musical form
as fundamental categories of musical thinking. Yuri Tyulin is a scholar, who made a significant contribution to
research of theoretical issues of the folk music of Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Baltic
countries. He interpreted in an original way the issues of folk songs, musical performance practice, music history,
musical aesthetics and musical psychology.
The special merit of the article is that it was written by a musician who, being one of Tyulin’s closest students, and
having analyzed the scholar’s works, discloses the quintessence of his scholarly ideas and discoveries, the functional
theory of music, a new interpretation of the principles of form-generation and a new systematization of musical forms,
the construction of musical speech, the phenomenon of “crystallization of thematicism” and modal theory, which
makes possible to comprehend the scholarly and artistic legacy of Yurli Nikolayevich Tyulin in a systemic manner.

Keywords: Yuri Nikolayevich Tyulin, musical thematic material, crystallization of thematicism, mode, harmony,
texture, musical sonata form, phrase, motive, musical syntax.

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How to Cite
Klimovitsky, A. I. (2017). Yuri Nikolayevich Tyulin. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 142–152. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2017.2.142-152
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Creative Profiles of Musicologists
Author Biography

Arkady I. Klimovitsky, Russian Institute of the History of Arts

Dr. Sci. (Arts), Professor, Chief Research Assistant at the Music Department

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