The origins of metric typology: from ‘metrotonics’ to ‘tactometrics’
One of the first Russian-language works aimed at creating a general theory of verse was Mikhail Malishevskii’s short book “Metrotonics” (1925), which offered a common theoretical frame for the whole structure of metrics. Later, some of Malishevskii’s ideas were developed by Aleksei Kviatkovskii, who proposed a unified treatment of classical and non-classical verse. Theoretics of the ‘Russian method’ in the theory of verse considered these theories unverifiable,...
Russian folk verse and the main approaches to its study
... approach. Furthermore, the degree of convergence with musicology can vary: in verse linguistics, traditional versification methods may often suffice. The approach based on counting beats holds particular promise, as it relates to the concepts of isochronic metrics, which remain underexplored in the field of Russian folk versification.
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Molitvennaya lirika russkikh poetov
[The Genre of a Prayer in the Oeuvre of Russian Poets]. Moscow (in Russ.).
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