Russian Music And Nationalism

Author : Marina Frolova-Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123362845

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Russian Music and Nationalism by Marina Frolova-Walker Pdf

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 : Robert C. Ridenour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : MINN:319510011313099

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Nationalism, Modernism, and Personal Rivalry in Nineteenth-century Russian Music by Robert C. Ridenour Pdf

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520268067

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On Russian Music by Richard Taruskin Pdf

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 : Marina Ritzarev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351568593

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Eighteenth-Century Russian Music by Marina Ritzarev Pdf

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.

Author : Pal Kolsto
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474433877

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Russia Before and After Crimea by Pal Kolsto Pdf

Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 brought East - West relations to a low. But, by selling the annexation in starkly nationalist terms to grassroots nationalists, Putin's popularity reached record heights. This volume examines the interactions and tensions between state and societal nationalisms before and after the annexation.

Author : Harry White,Michael Murphy
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1859181538

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Musical Constructions of Nationalism by Harry White,Michael Murphy Pdf

An innovative collection of essays applying a "new musicology" approach to the relationship between nationalist ideologies and the development of European music.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0691070652

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Defining Russia Musically by Richard Taruskin Pdf

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.

Author : James Benjamin Loeffler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300137132

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The Most Musical Nation by James Benjamin Loeffler Pdf

At a time of both rising anti-Semitism and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to Jewish modernity in music? Loeffler offers a new perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture and identity.

Author : Pal Kolsto
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474410434

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New Russian Nationalism by Pal Kolsto Pdf

Traces Russia's transforming nationalism, from imperialism, through ethnocentrism and migration phobia, to territorial expansion. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Author : Taras Kuzio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000534085

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Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War by Taras Kuzio Pdf

This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Europe’s de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book provides a historical and contemporary understanding behind President Vladimir Putin Russia’s obsession with Ukraine and why Western opprobrium and sanctions have not deterred Russian military aggression. The volume provides a wealth of detail about the inability of Russia, from the time of the Tsarist Empire, throughout the era of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and since the dissolution of the latter in 1991, to accept Ukraine as an independent country and Ukrainians as a people distinct and separate from Russians. The book highlights the sources of this lack of acceptance in aspects of Russian national identity. In the Soviet period, Russians principally identified themselves not with the Russian Soviet Federative Republic, but rather with the USSR as a whole. Attempts in the 1990s to forge a post-imperial Russian civic identity grounded in the newly independent Russian Federation were unpopular, and notions of a far larger Russian ‘imagined community’ came to the fore. A post-Soviet integration of Tsarist Russian great power nationalism and White Russian émigré chauvinism had already transformed and hardened Russian denial of the existence of Ukraine and Ukrainians as a people, even prior to the 2014 crises in Crimea and the Donbas. Bringing an end to both the Russian occupation of Crimea and to the broader Russian–Ukrainian conflict can be expected to meet obstacles not only from the Russian de facto President-for-life, Vladimir Putin, but also from how Russia perceives its national identity.

Author : Marina Frolova-Walker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691185514

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Rimsky-Korsakov and His World by Marina Frolova-Walker Pdf

A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally. While he remains well-known in Russia—where many of his fifteen operas and various orchestral pieces are still in the standard repertoire—very little of his work is performed in the West today beyond Scheherezade and arrangements of The Flight of the Bumblebee. In Western writings, he appears mainly in the context of the Mighty Handful, a group of five Russian composers to which he belonged at the outset of his career. Rimsky-Korsakov and His World finally gives the composer center stage and due attention. In this collection, Rimsky-Korsakov’s major operas, The Snow Maiden, Mozart and Salieri, and The Golden Cockerel, receive multifaceted exploration and are carefully contextualized within the wider Russian culture of the era. The discussion of these operas is accompanied and enriched by the composer’s letters to Nadezhda Zabela, the distinguished soprano for whom he wrote several leading roles. Other essays look at more general aspects of Rimsky-Korsakov’s work and examine his far-reaching legacy as a professor of composition and orchestration, including his impact on his most famous pupil Igor Stravinsky. The contributors are Lidia Ader, Leon Botstein, Emily Frey, Marina Frolova-Walker, Adalyat Issiyeva, Simon Morrison, Anna Nisnevich, Olga Panteleeva, and Yaroslav Timofeev. The Bard Music Festival Bard Music Festival 2018 Rimsky-Korsakov and His World Bard College August 10–12 and August 17–19, 2018

Author : M. D. Calvocoressi
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 1330348133

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Musorgsky, the Russian Musical Nationalist by M. D. Calvocoressi Pdf

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.

Author : Laura Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134341085

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Performing Russia by Laura Olson Pdf

This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia showing how folk 'tradition' in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented.

Author : Rutger Helmers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465007

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Not Russian Enough? by Rutger Helmers Pdf

Offers fresh perspectives on the function of nationalist thought in the cosmopolitan opera world, with particular emphasis on the idea of "Russianness" in four nineteenth-century operas by Glinka, Serov, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Author : Klara Moricz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520933680

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Jewish Identities by Klara Moricz Pdf

Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "Jewish music," which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Klára Móricz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century "Jewish music" in three case studies: first, Russian Jewish composers of the first two decades of the twentieth century; second, the Swiss American Ernest Bloch; and third, Arnold Schoenberg. Examining these composers in the context of emerging Jewish nationalism, widespread racial theories, and utopian tendencies in modernist art and twentieth-century politics, Móricz describes a trajectory from paradigmatic nationalist techniques, through assumptions about the unintended presence of racial essences, to an abstract notion of Judaism.