SOME PROBLEMS OF TONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY FOREIGN BACHOLOGY
The article “Some Problems of Tonality in Contemporary Foreign Bachology» is devoted to the survey and the certain systematization of the scientific works written in English. The information on studying Bach’s creative work given in this article is quite new for musicologists of our country. It is connected with the elaboration one of the very important question in Bachology. The research aspects are sphere of tonality in early J.S. Bach’s works (influence of D.Buxtehude), tone-painting, interconnection between tonality of the piece and music allegory and music rhetoric, peculiarities of tonality as an organizing principle on the level of the whole composition. The scientific theses are argued and proved with the quotations from monographs and articles of the famous scientists of the USA, United Kingdom and Germany. All the titles of researches and citations are translated from English into Russian (the translation made by the author of this article). There are original titles of books and articles in References.