Musicology Annotation << Back The Study of Polystylism in Domestic and Foreign Musicology Ivan A. Subbotin The study of theoretical problems of polystylism connected with the history of XX century music. In domestic and foreign musicology there are many stages of learning polistilism how the method works. The origin of polystylism associated with a new understanding of the category «style». Rejection and the rejection of structuralism in music and style update has led to a cultural understanding of processes of music second half of XX century. Crucial role in learning a new stylistic phenomena belongs to the works of contemporary Russian and foreign composers, as well as the works of Russian musicologists who developed the typology, the means of the foundations of analytic strategy new writing technique, to formulate the methodological continuity of polystylism and intertextuality. Western European and American research traditions use the basic principles of scientifi c books Russian composers (A. Schnittke) and musicologists. Their concepts have a wide interpretation of the chronological aspect of the study of polystylism and denote this composite technique as any appeal to a different style. Keywords: domestic and and foreign musicology, postvanguard, the style of music, polystylism, Schnittke, pastiche, quotation, allusion, collage, symbiosis. Contacts: E-mail: subbotin80@mail.ru Pp. 03-07.