Musicology Annotation << Back Ontology rhythmic structures mazurkas by Chopin Nina Bondarenko This work is dedicated to the problem of typology of Chopin mazurkas. In the domestic musicology these issues were addressed in the works B. Asafev, Vyach. Paskhalov, V. Bobrovsky and others. This research is aimed at finding and consideration of a new typological principle — the rhythmic structures («kinems», E. Nazaykinsky). Among the variety of options, the author finds three main rhythmic structures, which encode the type of the conflict, the algorithm of formation of the composition and specify characteristics of the «inner form» of mazurka genre. This research gives a new understanding Chopin’s mazurkas as style forming genre. Deep structural and semantic properties of the invariant genre (M. Aranovsky) mazurkas are the most important generating principle of the Polish composer’s style, which is detected both at the level intonation and rhythm, and on the level of the whole composition. Keywords: mazurka, genre, rhythmic structures, «kinems», «inner form», typological principle, ontology. Contacts: E-mail: ninall@rambler.ru Pp. 55-61.