Nikolai Pavlovich Dilezki

Nikolai Pavlovich Dilezki ( Russian Николай Павлович Дилецкий , Ukrainian Микола Дилецкий ; Mikolaj Dilecki , Mikołaj Pawłowicz Dilecki , Nikolay Diletsky * 1630 in Kiev , † 1681 in Moscow ) was a Ukrainian - Russian music theorist and composer.

Dilezki studied in Warsaw from 1651 to 1658 and then in Vilnius. From 1678 he lived in Moscow as a choir director and music teacher. His composition textbook Musical Grammar ( Grammatika musikiyskago peniya ) formed a decisive basis for the reform of Russian church chant by the Patriarch Nikon . He composed sacred concerts that show his knowledge of Western European musical culture.

Works

• Grammatika musikiyskago peniya (Грамматика муcикийского пения, "The grammar of a melody", Smolensk, 1677)
• Idea grammatikii musikiyskoy (Идея грамматикии муcикийской, "The idea of ​​a musical grammar", Moscow, 1679)
• Grammatika peniya musikiyskago (Грамматика пения муcикийского, Moscow, 1681)

literature

• Nina Gerasimova-Persyds'ka:  Dylec'kyj, Mykol. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 4 (Camarella - Couture). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
• Юрий Бочаров: Мастера старинной музыки. Гелеос, Москва 2005, ISBN 5-8189-0522-5 , pp. 132-133 , (Russian).
• Claudia R. Jensen: A Theoretical Work of Late Seventeenth-Century Muscovy: Nikolai Diletskii's "Grammatika" and the Earliest Circle of Fifths. In: Journal of the American Musicological Society. Vol. 45, No. 2, 1992, ISSN  0003-0139 , pp. 305-331, JSTOR 831450 .
• Claudia R. Jensen:  Diletsky, Nikolay. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).