TO THE QUESTIONS OF PERIODIZATION OF THE EUROPEAN MUSIC HISTORY IN THE GERMAN MUSICOLOGY
The article deals with problems connected with periodization of European musical culture as an indispensable condition of its understanding, as well as with different ways to solve these problems presented in writings of German and Austrian musicologists. Here is also the approach expanded which is presented in “New Handbook of Musicology” (Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft) edited by eminent musicologist Carl Dahlhaus.