Scholarship and scholarly periodicals in an artistic higher educational institution: The basic aspects

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of scholarly activities in musical higher educational institutions, spanning various different stages of development of the discipline of musicology. The research is focused on both the position of musicology in the structure of the artistic higher educational institution and on the peculiarities of its gradual incorporation into the general scholarly space, which in the various decades of the 20th century took place through various forms of integration. One such form is the musicologists’ dissertational activities, which took its beginnings in the 1930s. Particularly because of the practice of dissertation writing, musicology has made a breakthrough in its methodology, having become one of the most authoritative spheres of humanitarian knowledge. Another form of an outlet into a broader space of the humanitarian sphere turned out to be the musicologists’ participation in the grant programs: the Russian Humanitarian Scholarly Fund and the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research. Several dozens of supported projects present a representative perspective of the state of the conservatory-based discipline during the course of almost three decades: from 1994 until 2022. Along with this, the development of the international publishing activities through the publication of top-rated journals, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus are examined in this article. On the example of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music– the sole musical higher educational institution that entered the “Priority 2030” program,– the opportunities of musicology as a part of a fundamentally new conception of its further development are analyzed.