The conference entitled “Vocal Polyphony of the Peoples of Russia” was held in the Russian city of Voronezh, from September 24th-29th 1989. It was organized by the Musicology and Folklore Committee of the Union of Soviet Composers and the Gnesin State Musical-Pedagogical Institute. Short versions of the papers (each over three pages, some with musical examples) were published in Russian (see Engovatova, 1989). Here is the list of scholars and their papers according to the conference program and the published materials (some of the papers were not published and they are marked with *):

1. B. Efimenkova*, Russia, Moscow. “Russian vocal polyphony in the light of the structural-typological research”.

2. Yulia Evdokimova*, Russia, Moscow. “Principles of classification of the early forms of polyphony in foreign studies”.

3. Izaly Zemtsovsky, Russia, Leningrad. “Drone in the music of the aural tradition: Results and the perspectives of the international study of the problem”.

4. Inna Nazina, Belarus. Minsk. “The principle of droning in traditional vocal and instrumental music of Belarus”.

5. Olga Pashina, Russia. Moscow. “On the specifics of drone diaphony in eastern Polesie”.

6. Inna Fedorenko, Russia. Kransoyarsk. “The system of polyphony in lyrical songs of Russian-Belarus-Ukrainian border region”.

7. Zhanna Krasnova, Russia. Leningrad. “Some characteristics of forming and structure of heterophonic polyphony of Russian folk songs (on the materials of one tradition from Russian-Belarus border)”.

8. Evgenia Reznichenko, Russia. Moscow. “Some observations on North Russian variant heterophony”.

9. Valentina Listichkina, Russia, Moscow. “The correlation of melody and texture in wedding songs of the middle region of the river Mezen”.

10. Margarita Engovatova, Russia. Moscow. “Two-part singing with “podvodka” in Russian lyrical song”.

11. Tatiana Digun, Russia, Chekhov. “On some types of polyphony of the traditional songs of the north regions of the river Don”.

12. Elena Shishkina, Russia, Astrakhan. “On the polyphonic structure of wedding songs of the river Volga-Aktiubinsk basin (Astrakhan region)”.

13. Tatiana Kaluzhnikova, Russia. Sverdlovsk. “Polyphony in songs of the Ural mountains [Gornozavadskoi Ural]”.

14. Larisa Muxomedshina, Russia, Irkutsk. “On polyphonic structure of traditional “drawn out songs” of the river Angara”.

15. Natalia Giliarova, Russia, Moscow. “Polyphony as one of the components of the musical dialect”.

16. Alexander Banin, Russia, Moscow. “Polyphony and the problem of the evolution of the musical system”.

17. Alexandra Sokolova, Ukraine, Odessa. “On the types of polyphonic texture and its links with the scale basis of a song”.

18. Ekaterina Dorokhova, Russia, Moscow. “On the correlation between the types of polyphony and other levels of pitch organization of songs”.

19. Anatoli Ivanov, Russia, Moscow. “Canon in semi-periodic form (on the example of the dirges of Kazak-Nekrasov’s)”.

20. Mikhail Lobanov, Russia. Moscow. “Polyphony and temp”.

21. Nikolai Bojarkin, Mordva (Russia). Saransk. “Mordvinian polyphony in the context of Finno-Ugric musical folklore.”

22. Nadia Zhulanova, Komi (Russia). Perm. “Some peculiarities of the polyphony of Komi-Permiaks.”

23. Larisa Shipitsina, Komi (Russia), Perm. “On traditional polyphony of Komi-Permiaks’ musical culture.”

24. Rimma Churakova, Russia, Izhevsk. “On the vocal polyphony of south Udmurts.”

25. Elena Boikova, Russia. Perm. “On two forms of collective singing among south Udmurts.”

26. Tatiana Ananicheva, Russia, Moscow. “Some features of polyphonic texture of Russian wedding and round-dance songs of the villages of the basin of the river Sur.”

27. Anatoly Rakhaev, North Caucasia (Russia), Nalchik. “Forms of polyphonic singing in the epic tradition of the peoples of North Caucasia.”

28. Tamara Blaeva, North Caucasia (Russia), Nalchik. “The tradition of singing with the alternation of a soloist and a group in its connection with the musical-stylistic peculiarities of Adighian songs.”

29. Khamza Ikhtisamov, Russia, Ufa. “Overtone-harmonic polyphony in the musical folklore of Turkic peoples”.

30. Dashinima Dugarov, Russia, Ulan-Ude. “The problem of the emergence of the genre “ai-don” and heterophonic polyphony among western Buriats”.

31. Evgeni Trembovelsky, Russia, Voronezh. “The ‘Extending’ [raskrivaiushiisia] scale in folk and professional music (on the example of compositions of M. N. Musorgsky)”.

32. Simha Arom*, France, Paris. “Recording methodology for polyphonic music”.