Musicology Annotation << Back Anhemitonics in Prokofi ev’s melodies Larisa V. Brazhnik The paper presents anhemitonic examples in Sergey Prokofi ev’s musical compositions of different genres and creative periods, from early piano works to the masterpieces as the opera «War and peace», the Symphony № 7. The phenomenon of anhemitonics is rendered in a broad way: the mode consists of not only three or four semitone, or different kinds of pentatonic, but of six tones (anhemitonic hecsatonics), seven tones (anhemitonic heptatonics) or other various number of tones. Anhemitonic with different amount of tones in a mode is an attribute of Russian song traditions and music of Russian composers of XIX–XX century. There are several examples of pure pentatonic in some Prokofiev’s works. However, the most typical form of melodies is when it develops in dynamic way: anhemitonics (different types) – pentatonics. Inclusion expressive features of anhemitonics into his music is a demonstration of specifi c musical thinking of the Great Russian composer. Keywords: Prokofi ev, melodics, anhemitonics, pentatonics, intonational development Contacts: E-mail: brazhnik.larisa@yandex.ru Pp. 03-11.