Южно-Российский музыкальный альманах
South-Russian Musical Anthology
Iuzhno-Rossiiskii Muzykal'nyi Al'manakh

Academic journal
Founded in 2004
Since 2014 the journal has been published quarterly

The journal is included in the List of Academic Journals Recommended by the High Attestation Commission of Ministry of Education and Science of Russia

ISSN 2076-4766 (Print)
ISSN 2712-9764 (Online)

Subscription number in the Unified Catalogue «Russian Press» 79315

Founder and publisher:
Rostov State Rachmaninov Conservatoire

23 Budennovsky av., Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Postal Code in Russia: 344002

E-mail: riocons@mail.ru

The full-text version of the edition, as well as abstracts in Russian and in English are placed in free access in the «Archives». All the archives of the journal are also presented in the Russian Electronic Scientific Library – RSCI.

The journal is registered as I︠U︡zhno-Rossiĭskiĭ muzykalʹnyĭ alʹmanakh in the union catalog OCLC WorldCat and at the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) as Ûžno-Rossijskij muzykal’nyj al’manah.

South-Russian Musical Anthology 2026–1 (62)

Contents

Musical Culture of the South of Russia

• Selitsky A. Grigori Valliano: materials for a biography. Theatre artist, libretto translator. Article six

Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Composers’ Creativity

• Emelina E. Graphic images of «music for the eyes» in the second half of the twentieth century: the labyrinth
• Mo Kaiting. Forms of meter-rhythmical improvisation tendency in N. Kapustin’s Piano Sonatas
• Aksayskova E. Features of composer’s work with texts in the libretto of Water Passion After St. Matthew by Tan Dun (on the interpretation of the Passion genre)

Performing Art

• Leonov V., Palkina I. Cornett (zinc) and criteria of pitch structure in the 16th–18th centuries
• Moshkin K. H. Helmholtz’s “On the sensations of tone…” in Russian vocal treatises of the early 20th century
• Zanin E. Timpani in orchestral music of the 17th–19th centuries
• Gudozhnikova O. Genre and stylistic features of Cello Sonata by F. Poulenc

Problems of Musical Theater

• Lavrova S., Andreeva M. The macabre as a form of cultural sensibility: from medieval iconography to the operas by G. Ligeti and G. Kurtág

Music in the Mirror of Philosophy

• Mirskaya L., Pigulevskiy V. A voice in the space of culture

Music in the World of Arts

• Shak T. Music as a component of author’s style in the films of S. Ursulyak

Aspects of Musical Culture of the Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries

• Vishnevsky B. The vocal lyrics by M. Kuss in context of the 20th-century Russian chamber vocal music
• Smagina I., Smagina E. The formation of the Volgograd branch of the Union of Russia Composers: stages, contexts, modern realities
• Kolokolnikova A. Document as reality and as artifact (on the problem of documentary practices in music)

In Alliance with the Word

• Zinkevich E. “The Shakespearean path” of D. Shostakovich and B. Pasternak