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Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929 » Read Now
by Larry Sitsky. 354 pgs.

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Soviet and Russian music of the first third of the 20th century--with the exception of the music of a few high-profile composers who were officially sponsored by the State--is still largely unexplored territory, known only to a few specialists. Nevertheless, the music has considerable intrinsic...
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Soviet and Russian music of the first third of the 20th century--with the exception of the music of a few high-profile composers who were officially sponsored by the State--is still largely unexplored territory, known only to a few specialists. Nevertheless, the music has considerable intrinsic value well beyond its curiosity appeal, and includes many pieces unaccountably forgotten and certainly worth reviving, to the ultimate enhancement of our concert repertoire. The study of this music also explains much about the foundations of Soviet culture and its subsequent suppression and decline under the Stalinist yoke. The purpose of this volume is to stimulate interest in this little-known area of Soviet/Russian music. The works charted here constitute a great flowering of avant-garde music which was then savagely dealt with for Stalin's political purposes.
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Modern Russian Composers » Read Now
by Leonid Sabaneev, Judah A. Joffe. 258 pgs.

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...Music of Speech ; A History of Russian Music ; A General History of Music...clear, explained and justified. Russian music of the present day is inter-bound with the...
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Music under the Soviets: The Agony of an Art » Read Now
by Andrey Olkhovsky. 432 pgs.

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...utilize the vast, rich tradition of Russian music, and of world musical culture...15 The Heritage of Russian Music and Soviet Art Policy 21...65 The History of Russian...
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Modern Music: Composers and Music of Our Time (includes information on Russian music in "The Russian Revolution") » Read Now
by Max Graf, Beatrice R. Maier. 322 pgs.

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...13. The Russian Revolution 261...15. Music in the United States...the symphonies of Russian composers, from...personal, gripping music, but romantic music...just like...
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Russians on Russian Music, 1880-1917: An Anthology » Read Now
by Stuart Campbell. 267 pgs.

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This anthology of Russian music criticism reveals the reactions of leading critics to new Russian music in the period 1880-1917. Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin were in their prime, and several new generations emerged: Rachmaninoff and Skryabin, Stravinsky and Prokoviev. Works reviewed...
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This anthology of Russian music criticism reveals the reactions of leading critics to new Russian music in the period 1880-1917. Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin were in their prime, and several new generations emerged: Rachmaninoff and Skryabin, Stravinsky and Prokoviev. Works reviewed range from In the Steppes of Central Asia and the Pathétique Symphony to The Golden Cockerel and The Rite of Spring.
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Russian Cultural Studies: An Introduction (includes "Music in the Socialist State" and "Soviet Music after the Death of Stalin: The Legacy of Shostakovich") » Read Now
by Catriona Kelly, David Shepherd. 428 pgs.

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In a wide-ranging account of a variety of cultural forms and site of cultural production -- literature, cinema, radio, television, the visual art, journalism, advertising and consumerism, music theatre, the Church -- this groundbreaking book gives greater prominence to the processes of cultural...
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In a wide-ranging account of a variety of cultural forms and site of cultural production -- literature, cinema, radio, television, the visual art, journalism, advertising and consumerism, music theatre, the Church -- this groundbreaking book gives greater prominence to the processes of cultural reception than in previous texts. In essays by an international roster of specialists, the volume spotlights the role images of national identity, gender politics, youth culture and the interactions of public and private consciousness have played in the formation of cultural forms in the USSR and post-communist Russia.
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European Music in the Twentieth Century (includes information on Russian music in "The Soviet Union") » Read Now
by Howard Hartog. 341 pgs.

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...The Avatars of Russian Music in the edition they...Old Friends and New Music , Hamish Hamilton...substituted for the Russian. The Symphony of...doubts whether the Russian...
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From Bach to Stravinsky: The History of Music by Its Foremost Critics (includes "Russian Musical History in Kaleidoscope") » Read Now
by David Ewen. 357 pgs.

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...authors The Growth of Music , by permission...Methuen and Co. Russian Musical History in...authors Contemporary Russian Composers , by permission...authors Modern Music and...
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Twentieth Century Russia (includes "Music and Painting" in the chapter "The 'Silver Age' of the Arts") » Read Now
by Donald W. Treadgold, Herbert J. Ellison. 528 pgs.

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Donald W. Treadgold was professor of Russian history in the history department and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington.
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Igor Stravinsky: The Man and His Music » Read Now
by Alexandre Tansman, Therese Bleefield, Charles Bleefield. 300 pgs.

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...and to circumscribe his music within one or another...we come to that famous "Russian element" in Stravinskys...Prince Igor, either!" Russian music, from Glinka and...
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Russian Symphony: Thoughts about Tchaikovsky » Read Now
by Dmitri Shostakovich. 274 pgs.

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...founders of the great school of Russian music. His brilliant personality was...scholar with a deep feeling for Russian music, appreciated "The Tempest...in music classes...
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A Great Russian Tone-Poet, Scriabin (includes "The Musical Awakening") » Read Now
by A. Eaglefield Hull. 304 pgs.

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...opera was the foundation-stone of Russian music. After it, two courses only were...influence transplanted for good into Russian music. In opera, however, the national...was...