History of music in Russia from antiquity to 1800 / Nikolai Findeizen ; translation by Samuel William Pring ; edited and annotated by Miloš Velimirović and Claudia R. Jensen ; with the assistance of Malcolm Hamrick Brown and Daniel C. Waugh.

Author/creator Fendeĭzen, N. F.
Other author Pring, Samuel William, translator.
Other author Velimirović, Miloš, editor.
Other author Jensen, Claudia Rae, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008.
Description2 volumes : illustrations, music ; 27 cm.
Subjects

Uniform titleOcherki po istorii muzyki v Rossii. English
SeriesRussian music studies
Russian music studies (Bloomington, Ind.) ^A319529
Contents Volume 1. From antiquity to the beginning of the eighteenth century. The predecessors of the Slavs -- Pagan Rus' -- Kievan Rus' -- Novgorod the Great -- The activities of the Skomorokhi in Russia -- Music and musical instruments in Russian miniatures, woodcuts, and glossaries -- A survey of old Russian folk instruments -- Music in ancient Moscow (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) -- Music in the monastery. Chashi (toasts). Bell ringing. Sacred performances (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) -- Music in court life in the seventeenth century -- A brief survey of singers, composers, and music theorists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Music and theater in the age of Peter the Great --
Contents Volume 2. The eighteenth century. Music and theater, 1730-1740 -- Music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II -- Music in Russia's domestic life during the second half of the eighteenth century -- The Russian horn band -- Music in Russian public life during the second half of the eighteenth century -- Musical creativity in Russia during the eighteenth century -- Literature about music, publishers and sellers of sheet music, instrument makers and merchants.
Abstract This work is a pathbreaking two-volume opus which, in its scope and command of primary sources, and in its curiosity and generosity of scholarly inquiry, has remained a cornerstone for all subsequent studies of Russian music. Researched and written over a forty-year period dating back to tsarist times, this book was published in 1928 and 1929 by the Soviet State Publishing House, close to the time of its author's death. Approaching the study of the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russian cultural and social history, Fendeĭzen took as his major theme the divergence between the music of folk and public life and music connected with the court. Volume 1 details the development of musical culture in pre-Christian and Kievan Rus' and in Novgorod the Great; the activities of Russia's first folk musicians, the skomorokhi; the varieties and evolution of musical instruments, especially old Russian folk instruments; music in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Moscow; music in the monastery and in court life in the seventeenth century; and music and theater in the age of Peter the Great.
General noteTranslated from the Russian.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006037057 2006037055
ISBN9780253348258 (v. 1 ; alk. paper)
ISBN0253348250 (v. 1 ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780253348265 (v. 2 ; alk. paper)
ISBN0253348269 (v. 2 ; alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML300 .F413 2008 V. 1 ✔ Available Place Hold
Music Music Stacks ML300 .F413 2008 V. 2 ✔ Available Place Hold