Asafiev, Boris Vladimirovich
(1884–1949)
BORIS VLADIMIROVICH ASAFIEVASAFIEV, BORIS VLADIMIROVICHBORIS VLADIMIROVICH ASAFIEV [* 1884-† 1949] One of the Soviet Union's most influential music scholars, Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev wrote profusely on many topics, among them articles and reviews for the general public under the name Igor Glebov. Yet his major contributions to theoretical discourse, Muzykal'naia forma kak protsess [Musical Form as a Process] (1930) and the later Intonatsiia [Intonation] (1947), are as dense and challenging…