Scientific creativity of Academician Zemfira Safarova in the context of Azerbaijani musicology

Abstract

The article explores academic works of renowned musicologist and academician Zemfira Safarova in the context of Azerbaijani musicology. One can distinguish the following key directions in Safarova’s work: exploring the legacy of Uzeyir Hajibeyli, source study, and history and theory of music. In her books and articles published in Azerbaijan and a number of other countries, Z.Safarova looks at musical and academic legacy of Uzeyir Hajibeyli, thus significantly enriching the study of his work. Her explorations of the history of Azerbaijani musicology laid the foundation of the source study in the national musical science. In her fundamental monograph “Musical science of Azerbaijan (XIII-XX centuries)” the author for the first time in Azerbaijan examines the evolution of the national musical science from the XIII century to the present (XX century). Based on musical and theoretical generalizations obtained through the analysis of unique sources, Z.Safarova created history of a whole period in Azerbaijani musicology, which in its turn is an integral part of the history of music, musical, aesthetical and philosophic thought of the Middle East.