Boris Asafiev's intonatsia in the context of music theory of the 21st century

Ildar Khannanov
2018 Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje  
The term intonatsia has been used ubiquitously in Russian and Soviet music analysis and pedagogy since Boleslaw Yavorsky introduced it in 1908 and Boris Asafiev developed it into a universally applicable concept. It proved to be rather vague and complex because of the overwhelming range of meanings and polysemic etymology, considering that one may identify intonatsia not as a term but as a category. Today, this older term can acquire newer shades of meaning if placed in the context of latest
more » ... ievements of music theory in the areas of musical semiotics, theories of topics, Satzmodelle and partimenti.
doi:10.31724/rihjj.44.2.10 fatcat:p3xeusaiq5gn5cu74qc5eixbpy