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History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 2
- Author: Findeizen, Nikolai
- Editor: Jensen, Claudia
- Editor: Velimirovic, Milos
Findeizen's prose provides a fascinating narrative, and the translator, Samuel William Pring, has succeeded in conveying its original flavour. . . . I can attest that undertaking a translation...
History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 2
- Author: Findeizen, Nikolai
- Editor: Jensen, Claudia
- Editor: Velimirovic, Milos
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Findeizen's prose provides a fascinating narrative, and the translator, Samuel William Pring, has succeeded in conveying its original flavour. . . . I can attest that undertaking a translation...
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In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.
Volume 2 of Findeizen's landmark study surveys music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Catherine II, music in Russian domestic and public life in the second half of the 18th century, and the variety and vitality of Russian music at the end of the 18th century.
Contents
- Editors' Introduction to Volume 1
- Author's Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction. The Predecessors of the Slavs
- 2. Pagan Rus'
- 3. Kievan Rus'
- 4. Novgorod the Great
- 5. The Activities of the Skomorokhi in Russia
- 6. Music and Musical Instruments in Russian Miniatures, Woodcuts, and Glossaries
- 7. A Survey of Old Russian Folk Instruments
- 8. Music in Ancient Moscow (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)
- 9. Music in the Monastery. Chashi (Toasts). Bell Ringing. Sacred Performances (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
- 10. Music in Court Life in the Seventeenth Century
- 11. A Brief Survey of Singers, Composers, and Music Theorists of the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries
- 12. Music and Theater in the Age of Peter the Great
- Music Appendix
- Notes
- Volume 1 Bibliography
Awards and reviews
Eighteenth-Century Music
Findeizen's prose provides a fascinating narrative, and the translator, Samuel William Pring, has succeeded in conveying its original flavour. . . . I can attest that undertaking a translation and commentary that would meet present-day academic criteria must have seemed an almost impossible task. That is why I wish to emphasize that the completion of this project is one worth celebrating, and that the collective labour of those involved deserves the approbation of the wider musicological community.Vol. 6.2 2009 -- Marina Ritzarev
