[PDF] Russian Music And Nationalism eBook

Author : Marina Frolova-Walker
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music--its ineffable "Russianness"--Marina Frolova-Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar in 1836 to the death of Stalin in 1953, the years in which musical nationalism was encouraged and endorsed by the Russian state and its Soviet successor. The author identifies and discusses two central myths that dominated Russian culture during this period--that art revealed the Russian soul, and that this nationalist artistic tradition was founded by Glinka and Pushkin. The author also offers a critical account of how the imperatives of nationalist thought affected individual composers. In this way Frolova-Walker provides a new perspective on the brilliant creativity, innovation, and eventual stagnation within the tradition of Russian nationalist music.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520268067

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This volume gathers 36 essays by one of the leading scholars in the study of Russian music. An extensive introduction lays out the main issues and a justification of Taruskin's approach, seen both in the light of his intellectual development and in that of the changing intellectual environment.

Author : M. Montagu-Nathan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1447487400

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M. Montagu-Nathan takes an in-depth look and the history of Russian music, and a special look at the rise and progress of the Russian School of Composers. Contents include: Introduction; Part 1- The Pre-nationalists. Volkoff- Berezovsky, Bortniansky and Verstovsky, Glinka "A Life for the Czar", Russian and Ludmilla, Dargomijsky, The Stone Guest and the Five, Seroff and Lvoff. Part 2 - The Nationalists. Balakireff, Cesar cui, Borodin, Moussorgsky, Boris Goudounoff, Khovantchina, The Last Phase, Rimsky Korsakoff. Part 3- The Decline of Nationalism. Glazounoff, Liadoff and Liapounoff, Arensky, Tchaikovsky Rubinstein and the Eclectics, Taneieff. Part 4- The Present Movement. Rachmaninoff, Gliere and Ippolitoff-Ivanoff, Scriabin, Vassilenko and Grechaninoff, Akimenko Tcherepnin and Rebikoff, Steinberg Medtner and Catoire, Stravinsky, Operatic and Concert Enterprises, Appendix I, Appendix II.

Author : Philip Ross Bullock
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780754666622

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Philip Bullock looks at the life and works of Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940), the leading authority on Russian music and culture in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century England. As an inveterate traveller, prolific author, and polyglot friend of some of Europe's leading musicians, such as Elgar, Sibelius, Janácek, Newmarch deserves to be better appreciated. Drawing on both published and archival materials, the details of Newmarch's busy life are revealed, followed by an overview of English interest in Russian culture around the turn of the century. The main focus of the book is on the themes that dominated Newmarch's engagement with Russian culture and society: nationalism, the role of the intelligentsia and feminism.

Author : M. D. Calvocoressi
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781330348130

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Excerpt from Musorgsky, the Russian Musical Nationalist The Russian School resembles no other, either in history or in character. It suddenly blossomed forth in the middle of the nineteenth century, after a germinative period whose history can only be traced back with difficulty, but whose fruit ripened almost as soon as it appeared. Before the school was even fifty years old, it constituted a quite independent, homogeneous and extensive art. The case is so rare as to be at first disconcerting. It is not only the rapidity of growth which astonishes us, but also and especially the general excellence and the distinctive qualities which are common to nearly all the works exemplifying this school. Nationalism has often been put forward as a drawback to Russian music, and the claim of Glinka, Balakireff and Rimsky-Korsakoff, to have enriched their art-language by the inclusion of folk-songs, has been treated by some critics merely in a humorous light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.