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    Nikolay Diletsky was a 17th century Ukrainian theorist and composer who was influential in Russia. Little is known about his early life, though he was likely born in Kiev around 1630. He published his first work in Vilnius in 1675 and later lived in Smolensk and Moscow, where versions of his most famous work "A Grammar of Musical Song" were published in 1677, 1679, and 1681. This treatise taught music theory and composition and included his own works as examples. Diletsky is best known for this grammar, which had a major influence in Russia and included one of the earliest descriptions of the circle of fifths.

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    Nikolay Diletsky was a 17th century Ukrainian theorist and composer who was influential in Russia. Little is known about his early life, though he was likely born in Kiev around 1630. He published his first work in Vilnius in 1675 and later lived in Smolensk and Moscow, where versions of his most famous work "A Grammar of Musical Song" were published in 1677, 1679, and 1681. This treatise taught music theory and composition and included his own works as examples. Diletsky is best known for this grammar, which had a major influence in Russia and included one of the earliest descriptions of the circle of fifths.

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    Nikolay Diletsky was a 17th century Ukrainian theorist and composer who was influential in Russia. Little is known about his early life, though he was likely born in Kiev around 1630. He published his first work in Vilnius in 1675 and later lived in Smolensk and Moscow, where versions of his most famous work "A Grammar of Musical Song" were published in 1677, 1679, and 1681. This treatise taught music theory and composition and included his own works as examples. Diletsky is best known for this grammar, which had a major influence in Russia and included one of the earliest descriptions of the circle of fifths.

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    Nikolay Diletsky

    Little is known about Diletskys life. A remark by Ioannikii Tromovich Korenev, a fellow theorist who describes him as a resident of Kiev, is considered evidence of Diletskys Ukrainian origins. Korenevs statement is probably reliable, as he and Diletsky apparently
    were well acquainted.[1] However, the date and even the
    year of birth are not known, and no details on Diletskys early life have surfaced. He must have moved to
    Vilnius before 1675, because that year his Toga zlota
    (The golden toga) was published there. The text is
    now lost, but it is known that it was written in Polish,
    and the surviving title page[2] indicates that it was probably a panegyrical pamphlet.[3] Some sources indicate that
    he wrote at least one other musical treatise while in Vilnius, which is now lost:[4] this treatise is rst mentioned
    in Grammatika musikiyskago peniya (1677), and the Idea
    grammatikii musikiiskoi (1679) is described as a translation of the Vilnius work in its title page.

    Diletskys signature at the end of Idea grammatiki musikiyskoy

    Nikolay Diletsky (Ukrainian: ,


    Mykola Dyletsky, Russian: , Nikolay Pavlovich Diletsky, Nikolai Diletskii,
    Polish: Mikoaj Dilecki, also Mikolaj Dylecki, Nikolai
    Dilezki, etc.) (c. 1630, Kiev after 1680, Moscow) was
    a theorist and composer of Ukrainian nationality, active
    in Russia. He was widely inuential in late 17th-century
    Russia with his treatise on composition, A Musical Grammar, of which the earliest surviving version dates from
    1677. Diletskys followers included Vasily Titov.

    Life

    After Vilnius, Diletsky lived in Smolensk, where in 1677


    the rst surviving version of his magnum opus, Grammatika musikiyskago peniya (A grammar of musical
    song), was written. He then moved to Moscow, where
    the subsequent two versions of the work appeared in
    1679 and 1681. Nothing further is known about Diletskys life, and it is generally assumed that he died shortly
    afterwards. His date of birth is projected from this
    hypothesis.[5]

    2 Work
    Although several of his compositions survive, Diletskys
    fame rests chiey on his composition treatise, Grammatika musikiyskago peniya (A Grammar of Music[al
    Singing]), which was the rst of its kind in Russia.
    The three surviving versions bear dierent names, but
    the content is roughly the same with some important
    dierences.[6] The treatise is in two parts. The rst
    teaches the rudiments of music theory, relying heavily
    on Western terminology and theoretical precepts, especially the hexachord", and the second teaches composition of a cappella concertos, a genre that came to Russia through Ukraine and of which Diletsky was one of
    the rst exponents.[6] Diletsky provides a wide variety
    of examples, both from his own work, including an 8voice setting of the Divine Liturgy that he composed in
    Smolensk specically to illustrate the Grammatika,[7] and
    A sample page from Idea grammatiki musikiyskoy (Moscow, from that of contemporary Western composers, partic1679). Click image for details.
    ularly the Poles Marcin Mielczewski and Jacek Rzy1

    REFERENCES

    4 Notes
    [1] Jensen 1992, 310.
    [2] Jensen 1992, 311.
    [3] Jensen, Grove.
    [4] Jensen 1992, 309.
    [5] Jensen 1992, 310: Oleksandra Tsalai-Iakimenko and
    Oleksandr Zelinskii, "'More neprebrannoe' (Novoznaidenii avtograf tvoru Mikoli Diletskoho), Zhovten' no.
    7 (1966): 109-116, suggested that Diletskii died in the
    third decade of the 18th century, based on their belief that
    Muzei ukrainskoho mistetstva 87/510804, dated 1723, is
    an autograph. They propose a correspondingly later birth
    date, in the 1650s. This hypothesis, taken up in their
    later works, was refuted in Vladimir Goshovskii and I.A.
    Durnev, K sporu o Diletskom, Sovetskaia muzyka no. 9
    (1967): 138.
    [6] Jensen 1992, 307.
    [7] Jensen 1992, 312.
    [8] Jensen, Grove. Johann David Heinichen described the circle of fths in a 1728 treatise.
    Circle of fths in Idea grammatikii musikiyskoy (Moscow, 1679)

    cki. Apart from the tremendous inuence it had on subsequent generations of Russian church composers, the
    Grammatika is of particular interest for having the rst
    known description of the circle of fths, one that antedates Western examples by several decades.[8]

    List of works

    3.1

    Writings

    Grammatika musikiyskago peniya (


    c , A grammar of musical
    song, Smolensk, 1677)
    Idea grammatikii musikiyskoy (
    c, An idea of musical grammar,
    Moscow, 1679)
    Grammatika peniya musikiyskago (
    c, Moscow, 1681)

    3.2

    Music

    3 settings of the Divine Liturgy (48 voices, includes


    Kyivan Chant and a Proportional liturgy)
    2 sacred concertos
    Resurrection/Easter kanon, 8vv[9]

    [9] List of works taken from: Mykola Dyletskiy: Sacred Works, Kyiv Chamber Choir. 2003, Atlantik
    (), CCK 11-2; CCK 11-3.

    5 References
    Claudia R. Jensen. A Theoretical Work of Late
    Seventeenth-Century Muscovy: Nikolai Diletskiis
    Grammatika and the Earliest Circle of Fifths,
    JAMS, xviii (1992), 30531. (subscription required)
    Claudia R. Jensen. Nikolay Diletsky. In Macy,
    Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online.
    Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
    Dytyniak Maria Ukrainian Composers - A Biobibliographic Guide - Research report No. 14,
    1896, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

    Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

    6.1

    Text

    Nikolay Diletsky Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Diletsky?oldid=610728292 Contributors: MistToys, Marcus2,


    Jashiin, Bobo192, FeanorStar7, Rjwilmsi, Bandurist, Kleinzach, DenisRS, SMasters, Cydebot, Thijs!bot, Kosboot, Boguslavmandzyuk,
    Mokgamen, Jtir, Stusutclie, Aletucker, Ostap R, A.Savin, Addbot, Lightbot, Luckas-bot, Coepulonus, Carminowe of Hendra, Classicalfan2, Drummerkoen, VIAFbot and Anonymous: 5

    6.2

    Images

    File:Diletsky_circle.jpg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Diletsky_circle.jpg License: Public domain Contributors: The manuscript is held by the Russian State Library. Original artist: Unknown
    File:Diletsky_moods.jpg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Diletsky_moods.jpg License: Public domain
    Contributors: The manuscript is held by the Russian State Library. Original artist: Unknown
    File:Diletsky_signature.jpg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Diletsky_signature.jpg License: Public domain Contributors: The manuscript is held by the Russian State Library. Original artist: Unknown

    6.3

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