ABSTRACT
The prominent Russian-Swiss mathematician of the eighteenth century, Leonard Euler wrote a treatise Tentamen novae theoriae musicae that combined the formalist precision of the cutting-edge scientific method with the discussion of “pleasantness of chords,” which in our concept can be labeled as integralist. In many aspects, it resonates with Diletsky’s ideas is discussed. Euler treated chords as wellestablished entities with character and function. In general, the eighteenth century in Russia was remarkable; its list of achievements includes the incidental music for the theater, various kinds of musical entertainment at the court of the Russian emperors, the first attempt in Europe to collect and notate folk music, and the transition from monody to part-singing in the churches. All this galvanized the history of Russian music at this time, which is often denoted as the “Russian Baroque”.
