The Dictionary of Musical Terminology (1930) as an Artifact of Culture of the First Third of the 20th Century and a Historical Source of Modern Musical and Lexicographic Research

Author

Nemkovych Olena

a Doctor of Art Studies, a head of the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0006-5720

The Dictionary of Musical Terminology (1930)
as an Artifact of Culture of the First Third of the 20th Century and a Historical Source of Modern Musical and Lexicographic Research

Abstract

One of the first Ukrainian music dictionaries is analyzed in the article. Such books have marked collectively the formation of musical lexicography as a separate section of Ukrainian musicology. This is A Dictionary of Musical Terminology, prepared and published by the Institute of Ukrainian Scientific Language of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1930).

The article is aimed at the to understanding of the mentioned work as the monument of science, through which the content of Ukrainian musical culture of the first third of the 20th century is read – the state of its structure, contacts and typological kinship with contemporary European trends and achievements in music and musicology, peculiarities of one’s own musicological tradition, etc. At the same time, the chosen text is analyzed as a historical source of modern musical and lexicographical studies. The specified special analisys of this outstanding monument of Ukrainian musicology has not been carried out before. This determines the novelty of the submited research.

The following methods are used in the work: phenomenological – in the differentiated study of various aspects of the lexical content of the Dictionary of Musical Terminology in its synchronous and diachronic connections with the processes of the development of culture and science; historical – in the interpretation of the chosen musicological text as an artifact of culture of the first third of the 20th century; new historicism in the intertextual analysis and reinterpretation of the analyzed text as well as relevant textual and contextual interactions taking into account the current state of Ukrainian musical lexicography.

The conclusions of the conducted research are related to the understanding of the importance of the analyzed Dictionary of Musical Terminology for modern musical and lexicographic research, the unity of the history of Ukrainian musicological science.

Keywords

musical lexicography, Dictionary of Musical Terminology, Ukrainian Musical Encyclopedia, musicology, Ukrainian musicological science, musical culture.

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