Alekseyev, Eduard, 1937 -

Eduard Yefimovich Alekseyev (b. 1937, Yakutia) is an ethnomusicologist who has been conducting fieldwork for forty years in different regions of the former Soviet Union, with a focus on the musical cultures in Siberia. He is well-known as a researcher of traditional music, and for his work on the theoretical problems of mode and melodic scale, intonation, timbre, and notations. In addition, he studies the sociology and psychology of musical perception.

From 1972 until 1992, he served as chairman of the All-Union Folklore Commission of the Union of Soviet Composers. He has also served as Director of the Department of the General Theory of Folklore at the State Institute for Art Studies (Moscow).

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