Congratulations to Aleksandra (Sasha) Drozzina, who recently defended her dissertation “Schnittke, Gubaidulina, and Pärt: Religion and Spirituality during the Late Thaw and Early Perestroika.” This was written at Louisiana State University, under the supervision of Inessa Bazayev. Looking forward to reading Sasha’s work!

Check out some of Philip Ewell’s recent publications on Russian-language music theory:

“On Rimsky-Korsakov’s False (Hexatonic) Progressions Outside the Limits of a Tonality,” in Music Theory Spectrum, Fall 2019 https://academic.oup.com/mts/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mts/mtz020/5688659

“On the Russian Concept of Lad, 1830–1945…[Read more]