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"lagged behind their compositional counterparts" such as Italy, Germany, and France, most
musical terms transferred from those languages into Russian.41 For example, ordinal numbers
used to describe interval size are taken from Latin-based languages: The word "second" in
Russian Cyrillic is translated from secunda [ceKynaa]. Yavorsky added many musical terms to
the Russian lexicon, most important for this research, the word "augmented" [yeelu'lennszbl].42
Another word, lao [lad]-first translated into Russian from German by Modest Rezvoi (1807-
1853) in 1830-was an "independent and important topic" of mode that Yavorsky shed light on
and has been widely discussed by Western music theorists as it does not translate easily to
English.43 The closest translation is the term "mode."44
Yavorsky's work deserves a lengthy discussion because of its direct influence on
Ogolevets and Russian music theory in general. Like Taneev's theory of gravitation to tonic,
Yavorsky focused on what he termed meopwu cayxoeozo mqomenuw [the theory of auditory
gravitation] starting with a Single Symmetrical System (SSS) to more complex modal chains
resulted in the generation of augmented sixth chords and modal collections.45 Symmetry "in a
symmetrical system manifests itself in the opposite directions of the gravitation and the
resolution of unstable tones into stable ones," of which either may contribute to the collections
themselves.46 Example 2.1 shows the most basic musical resolution. In Example 2. 1a, the tritone,
4' Ewell (2018), [2.2].
42 Ibid., [3.2]. This passage in Ewell's article includes many other examples of words Yavorsky added to the
Russia's musical terminology.
43 Ellon D. Carpenter, 1995, "Russian Theorists on Modality in Shostakovich's Music," From Shostakovich Studies.
Ed. by David Fanning, Cambridge University Press, 79.
44 Yavorsky was not the first to speak on MId, but was one of the leading theorists to develop a fundamental theory.
For a thorough discussion on lid, see Ewell (2018).
45 Gordon McQuere, 1983, "The Theories of Boleslav Yavorsky," In Russian Theoretical Thought in Music, ed. by
Gordon McQuere, University of Rochester Press, 113; Ewell (2018), [4.3]
46 Gordon McQuere, 1979, "'The Elements of the Structure of Musical Speech' by S.V. Protopopov: A Translation
and Commentary," PhD Diss., The University of Iowa, 23.18
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