Elena CHERNOVA is a doctoral candidate in Musicology at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany, under Christoph Flamm. A graduate of the Volgograd Conservatory, Russia (music theory), she earned a Master of Arts in Historical Musicology at the University of Regensburg, Bavaria. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Russian Choral Heritage Foundation, a member of the international project “Orthodox Sacred Music Reference Library”, independent cataloguer of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) and a Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. Her dissertation project “The All-Night Vigil in early Russian polyphony” is being supported by an individual fellowship of the Heidelberg University. Her research interests focus on historically informed analytical methods, palaeography and notation of the Russian neumatic polyphony, 17th century music theory, composition techniques of the late Romanticism, limits of tonality.
