Interregional Academy of Personnel Management

February 18 Ukrainian-Azerbaijani Institute of Social Sciences and self government of G.A. Aliyev in AIDP held a round table on "The Philosophy of Modern Music as the direction of philosophizing: the problem of formation".

At the meeting the head of the philosophy department Professor Yuri Myelkov remarked in his opening speech that music is an important manifestation of contemporary culture, that is also interdisciplinary manifestation of philosophizing, and therefore need to be qualified both in philosophy and in music to learn the philosophy of music as the direction of modern philosophizing and to consider its problems of development.

Among the main topics discussed by scientists were:

• Philosophy of music: a complete discipline or a division of aesthetics or interdisciplinary program;
• Music as a philosophy that is: Boethius, Descartes, Rousseau, Nietzsche;
• Philosophical aspects of musical form, variation, rondo, sonata;
• Cosmological aspects of music: harmony of the spheres;
• Philosophy and music XX and XXI centuries: dodecaphony and new techniques of composition.

The performance of the candidate of physical and mathematical sciences was very interesting, professor Alexander Pustovit on "Philosophy and Music are isomorphisms." In his report, Professor outlined the concept of music, clearly illustrating its musical works of the great classics. Thus, in describing the concept of eternal return, so-called "rondo", Alexander V. offered to listen to the piano piece "Before Eliza" by Ludwig van Beethoven. According to scholar thoughts, the concept of eternal returning is embodied in the music by  formula AVASA. Another formula which was suggested by Poustovit was A A1 A2 A3 - formula of concept variations. Musically this theory was illustrated by "24 Caprices" Nicolo Paganini. And in the work of Richard Wagner's that is opera "The Valkyrie" scientist saw a clear illustration of the concept of infinity in music.

Equally informative was the report of Professor Yuri Myelkova on "Bach as a philosopher," in which the scholar considered a German composer to be a mystical philosopher. The base  idea of the report was that art was the religion for Bach, but the way the music was worship for him.

During the discussion Professor of Sociology Yuri Surmin said that music coexists with various kinds of knowledge, philosophy, sociology and pedagogy. It affects a person in two ways: as a stimulator and translator. In his speech Surmin stated that Ukrainian society today, unfortunately, has a narrow social base effect on ordinary Ukrainian and sees the solution to this problem by acting instrument pedagogy.

The round table was held within the topics of research department of philosophy "Formation of value-semantic orientations of human existence in modern society: the role of culture and philosophy."