Musicology Annotation << Back «Short Method of Singing» by Gavriil Lomakin J.M. Rogacheva The paper deals with a famous 19th century textbook «The Short Method of Singing» by Gavriil Lomakin, one of the greatest masters of choir art in Russia. The author shows how Lomakin’s book, forgotten in our days, helps to restorative character traits of Lomakin’s composer style and the performing style of epoch in general. Examples of cult and temporal music are compared in the article. Keywords: Gavriil Lomakin, choirmaster, Russian choir art, Pay free music school, Short Method of Singing, musical-theoretical textbook. E-mail: sinfonico@yandex.ru C. 9–15