In the present paper we consider a selfadjoint and nonsmooth operator-valued function on (c, d)⊂R1. We suppose that the equation (L(α)x, x)=0,x≠0, has exactly one rootp(x) ∈ (c, d) and the functionf(α)=(L(α)x, x) is increasing at the pointp(x). We discuss questions of the variational theory of the spectrum. Some theorems on the variational properties of the spectrum are proved.