Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia
- Author: Jensen, Claudia
Jensen focuses on a very specific-and little researched and written about-topic and period: the music of the court and church in Muscovite Russia. . . . This is a book for music scholars and... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The New Patriarch
- 1. The True False Dmitrii and the Death of Music in Moscow
- 2. "Wondrous singers and exceptional voices": Singers and Singing in Muscovy
- 3. "Sweet and harmonious singing": Domestic Singers and Domestic Singing
- 4. Tavern and Wedding: The Instrumental Traditions at the Muscovite Court
- 5. Nikolai Diletskii: Language and Imagery in Muscovite Music Theory
- 6. The Muscovite Court Theater
- Epilogue: Reversing Our Gaze: A Case Study
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index