Rostislav Nikolayevich Berberov (March 28, 1921 — June 12, 1984) was a Russian music theorist and musicologist.
[1] While an excellent student who was highly proficient in his field, Berberov was denied a diploma by the Moscow Conservatory due to his unwillingness to endorse Marxism–Leninism as a political philosophy.
[1] In the 1960s Berberov created a complex yet structurally integrated system of music analysis that was built on combining theories developed by Ernst Kurth, Boris Asafyev, Hugo Riemann, and Johannes Bobrowski.
It also incorporated many elements from Riemannian theory in relation to musical motifs and phrase analysis.
Some of his important publications in which he demonstrated his analytical methodology include Spetsifika strukturï khorovogo proizvedeniya (‘Specifics of the Structure of a Choral Work’, Moscow, 1981) and the monograph Ėpicheskaya poėma’ Germana Galïnina: estetiko-analisticheskiye pazmïshleniya (‘The Epic Poem of German Galïnin: Aesthetic-Analytic Reflections’, Moscow, 1986).