Tymofeieva K. Comparative analysis as a method of interpretology (at the example of piano performing).

The dissertation is devoted to development of methodological problems of the performance theory and reveals the tendency of internal relationship of the theoretical and performing musicology based on their categorical synthesis. Systematical character of basic categories of the performing theory (interpretology) is investigated through the method of comparative analysis.In the dissertation the ways, means and possibilities of comparative analysis as a multilevel system of relations are defined: from composer's text - to performing dramaturgy and piano school, from modeling the principal differences of objects and levels of artifacts description in piano performance - to revealing the national traditions and cultural-historical context.Practical value of the dissertation consists in de-velopment and approbation of several methods of the comparative analysis (on a material of the Grande sonata by P. Tchaikovsky ор. 37, the First ор. 28 and the Second ор. 36 S. Rachmaninoff's sonatas), including also thetech-nique of computer technologies.