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Classical Essays On The Development Of The Russian Art Song And Twenty Seven Outstanding Russian Romances Of The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries
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Book Synopsis Classical Essays on the Development of the Russian Art Song, and Twenty-seven Outstanding Russian Romances of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-centuries by :
Download or read book Classical Essays on the Development of the Russian Art Song, and Twenty-seven Outstanding Russian Romances of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-centuries written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies by : Patt Leonard
Download or read book The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies written by Patt Leonard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 1645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.
Book Synopsis Classical Essays on the Development of the Russian Art Song by :
Download or read book Classical Essays on the Development of the Russian Art Song written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art Song in Nineteenth-century Russia by : Anne Marie Weaver
Download or read book Art Song in Nineteenth-century Russia written by Anne Marie Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art song thrived in nineteenth-century Russa, but it did so almost entirely unencumbered by the rhetoric and musical characteristics of musical nationalism that dominate our historical narratives of Russian music. Rather, the art song, or romans (a singular noun derived from the French romance) reflects the basic cosmopolitanism of its cultural context. The genre comprises thousands of songs for voice and piano, published for domestic use in upper-class homes and salons, with substantial contributions from all of imperial Russia's best-known composers. Few of these songs show elements of musical nationalism (such as the use of folk-tunes, or identifiably Russian subject matter). Rather, composers predominatntly employed a sophisticated musical style developed from the art song traditions of western Europe, and the resulting songs often refer to lands outside of Russia through poetic texts and musical features. This cosmopolitanism offers one of the most compelling reasons for the genre's current state of neglect--the most recent full-length monograph on the romans (Vasina-Grossman, 1956) dates from more than a half century ago and lacks any kind of index. The existing English-language scholarship either deals with a small number of songs by a specific composer, or summarizes a large quantity of songs with very little depth. Moreover, none of the extant scholarship even mentions the many songs by Russian composers written in languages other than Russian (most often French, German, or Polish). My dissertation begins to fill this problematic gap, not with a chronological history of the art song in nineteenth-century Russia, but with a geographically-oriented exploration of the many connections between Russian composers and Western European music and literature. The art song, a genre of miniatures from the high public profiles hat render operas and symphonies problematic, illustrates the extent to which Russia was niot just an "exotic ghetto" (in Richard Taruskin's phrase) but functioned as a full participant in the European musical tradition.
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Russian Music by : Marina Ritzarev
Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Russian Music written by Marina Ritzarev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has tended to view the history of Russian music as not beginning until the end of the eighteenth century. Marina Ritzarev's work shows this interpretation to be misguided. Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, she explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century, a period of especially intense Westernization and secularization. The book focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music during this period, rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive survey. The musical culture of the time is discussed against the rich background of social, political and cultural life, tying together many of the phenomena that used to be viewed separately. The book highlights the importance of previously marginalized sectors - serf culture, choral sacred culture, the contribution of foreign musicians, the significant influence of Freemasonry, the role of Ukrainian and West-European cultures and so on - as well as casting new light on the well-researched topic of Russian opera. Much new archival material is introduced, and revised biographies of the two leading eighteenth-century Russian composers, Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, are provided, as well as those of the serf composer Stepan Degtyarev and the Italian Giuseppe Sarti. The book places eighteenth-century Russian music on the European map, and will be of particular importance for the study of European musical cultures remote from such centres as Italy, Germany-Austria and France. Eighteenth-century Russian music is organically linked with its past and future and its contributory role in forming the Russian national identity and developing the Russian idiom is clarified.
Book Synopsis Muraqqaʼe Sharqi by : Soussie Rastegar
Download or read book Muraqqaʼe Sharqi written by Soussie Rastegar and published by Aiep. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russians on Russian Music, 1830-1880 by : Stuart Campbell
Download or read book Russians on Russian Music, 1830-1880 written by Stuart Campbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume reveals, through contemporary Russian eyes, how the foundations of the hugely popular Russian classical repertory were laid, providing a vivid picture of the musical life of the opera house and the concert hall from which this repertory sprang.
Book Synopsis Representing Russia's Orient by : Adalyat Issiyeva
Download or read book Representing Russia's Orient written by Adalyat Issiyeva and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, Russia's geo-political and cultural position between the East and West has shaped its national identity. Representing Russia's Orient tells the story of how Russia's imperial expansion and encounters with its Asian neighbors influenced the formation and development of Russian musical identity in the long nineteenth century. While Russia's ethnic minorities, or inorodtsy, were located at the geographical and cultural periphery, they loomed large in composers' perception and musical imagination and became central to the definition of Russianness itself. Drawing from a long-forgotten archive of Russian musical examples, visual art, and ethnographies, author Adalyat Issiyeva offers an in-depth study of Russian art music's engagement with oriental subjects. Within a complex matrix of politics, competing ideological currents, and social and cultural transformations, some Russian composers and writers developed multidimensional representations of oriental "others" and sometimes even embraced elements of Asian musical identity. In three detailed case studies--on the leader of the Mighty Five, Milii Balakirev, Decembrist sympathizer Alexander Aliab'ev, and the composers affiliated with the Music-Ethnography Committee--Issiyeva traces how and why these composers adopted "foreign" musical elements. In this way, she provides a fresh look at how Russians absorbed and transformed elements of Asian history and culture in forging a national identity for themselves.
Book Synopsis Tchaikovsky's Pathétique and Russian Culture by : Marina Ritzarev
Download or read book Tchaikovsky's Pathétique and Russian Culture written by Marina Ritzarev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tchaikovskyʼs Sixth Symphony (1893), widely recognized as one of the worldʼs most deeply tragic compositions, is also known for the mystery surrounding its hidden programme and for Tchaikovskyʼs unexpected death nine days after its premiere. While the sensational speculations about the composerʼs possible planned suicide and the suggestion that the symphony was intended as his own requiem have long been discarded, the question of its programme remains.
Book Synopsis Russians on Russian Music, 1880–1917 by :
Download or read book Russians on Russian Music, 1880–1917 written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second anthology of Russian writing on Russian music begins in 1880 (where the first volume concluded) and ends in 1917. It brings the thoughts of leading Russian music critics to an English-speaking readership as they react to the Russian music that is new to them, during a period when all aspects of musical life were developing rapidly. Music criticism had become more sure-footed, if no less opinionated. These reviews demonstrate greater awareness both of music history and of contemporary music abroad. The period covers the late careers of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov as well as late works by Borodin and Balakirev, and the emergence of Mussorgsky's compositions. Works by the intervening generation, including Arensky, Glazunov and Lyadov, are also reviewed and the book concludes with coverage of works by the Moscow School, including Medtner, Rachmaninoff and Skryabin and the early compositions of Stravinsky and Prokoviev.
Book Synopsis Defining Russia Musically by : Richard Taruskin
Download or read book Defining Russia Musically written by Richard Taruskin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: with an air of alterity--sensed, exploited, bemoaned, reveled in, traded on, and defended against both from within and from without." The author's goal is to explore this assumption of otherness in an all-encompassing work that re-creates the cultural contexts of the folksong anthologies of the 1700s, the operas, symphonies, and ballets of the 1800s, the modernist masterpieces of the 1900s, and the hugely fraught but ambiguous products of the Soviet period. Taruskin begins by showing how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. He then examines how Russia as a whole shaped its identity in contrast to an "East" during the age of its imperialist expansion, and in contrast to two different musical "Wests," Germany and Italy, during the formative years of its national consciousness.
Book Synopsis Russian romanticism by : Lauren G. Leighton
Download or read book Russian romanticism written by Lauren G. Leighton and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musorgsky written by Richard Taruskin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer. . . . [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century have refashioned Musorgsky from what the evidence suggests he was—an aristocrat with an early clinical interest in true-to-life musical portraiture and a later penchant for drinking partners who were both folklore buffs and political reactionaries democrat."—from the foreword Incorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book for the first time sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context. From this perspective, Richard Taruskin revises fundamentally the composer's historical and artistic image, in particular debunking the century-old dogmas of Vladimir Stasov, Musorgsky's first biographer. Here the author offers the most complete explanation of the revision of the opera Boris Godunov, compares it to contemporaneous operas by Chaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, advances a revisionary characterization of Khovanshchina as an aristocratic tragedy informed by a pessimistic view of history, discusses Musorgsky's use of folklore, and, focusing on Sorochintsi Fair, brings to a climax his refutation of Musorgsky as a protorevolutionary populist. The epilogue is a survey of revisionary productions of Musorgsky's works at home during the Gorbachev era.
Book Synopsis Rachmaninoff's Complete Songs by : Richard D. Sylvester
Download or read book Rachmaninoff's Complete Songs written by Richard D. Sylvester and published by Russian Music Studies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergei Rachmaninoff--the last great Russian romantic and arguably the finest pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries--wrote 83 songs, which are performed and beloved throughout the world. Like German Lieder and French mélodies, the songs were composed for one singer, accompanied by a piano. In this complete collection, Richard D. Sylvester provides English translations of the songs, along with accurate transliterations of the original texts and detailed commentary. Since Rachmaninoff viewed these "romances" primarily as performances and painstakingly annotated the scores, this volume will be especially valuable for students, scholars, and practitioners of voice and piano.
Book Synopsis Russian Folk Songs by : Vadim Prokhorov
Download or read book Russian Folk Songs written by Vadim Prokhorov and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life," wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Russian folk songs have always played an essential part in Russian life, culture, and music. They have played an important part in the work of many great Russian composers including Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokoviev, and Stravinsky. In this new study, Vadim Prokhorov provides a historical survey and a description of the musical and poetic characteristics of Russian folk song. The songs themselves are classified into several categories: calendar songs, lyric songs, work songs, epic songs, historical songs, and the urban songs that emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. Prokhorov provides a basis for understanding the ethnomusicological principles of Russian folk song. In addition to his discussion of the various categories, he includes a generous selection of songs arranged for voice and piano, together with texts and translations of the song texts. Anyone interested in this rich repertory of folk song, whether as teacher, singer, or music lover, will find this a rewarding collection.
Book Synopsis Tchaikovsky's Pathetique and Russian Culture by : Marina Ritzarev
Download or read book Tchaikovsky's Pathetique and Russian Culture written by Marina Ritzarev and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony (1893), widely recognized as one of the world's most deeply tragic compositions, is also known for the mystery surrounding its hidden programme and for Tchaikovsky's unexpected death nine days after its premiere. While the sensational speculations about the composer's possible planned suicide and the suggestion that the symphony was intended as his own requiem have long been discarded, the question of its programme remains. Tchaikovsky's mention of the extreme subjectivity lying behind the work's artist concept has usually led scholars to seek clues to the programme in his inner emotional world, and some have mooted his homosexuality as the source of personal tragedy that may be at the work's roots. In this close analytical and historical study, Marina Ritzarev argues that viewing a work of such outstanding aesthetic achievement solely as a personal lament is both unsatisfactory and inconsistent with Tchaikovsky's artistic ethics. She looks for the programme instead in the realm of European eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural values. Focusing her extensive knowledge of Russian culture on Tchaikovsky's personal reading and social circle, she offers a startling new interpretation of this great work [Publisher description].
Book Synopsis Essays on Russian and East European Music by : Gerald Abraham
Download or read book Essays on Russian and East European Music written by Gerald Abraham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the first of Gerald Abraham's many books were studies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and his knowledge of Russian literature and culture has provided the key to his extensive research into the history of Slavonic music. Music, for Gerald Abraham, was never merely an artefact to be measured and described - he believed it should be considered in its cultural context. It is remarkable how he enlivens our view of the Russian scene without having lived there for a prolonged period. "Essays on Russian and East European Music" brings together eleven essays on Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian music published in various books and journals over a period of twenty years, and a previously unpublished essay on the operas of Moniuszko.
