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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Russian Orthodox"”.
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The Reaction of the the Russion Orthodox Church During the First Year of Communist Persecution
<p>On October 25, 1917, according to the Russian calendar, the Bolshevik Revolution, which ushered on to the world scene the dictatorship of Communism, began in Petrograd and spread rapidly to other Russian cities and towns and ultimately engulfed the whole country. Its effect upon all classes of …
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The Use of Eastern Orthodox Chants and Their Impact on the Harmonic Language of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's All-Night Vigil
Composed between 1881 and 1882, the Russian Orthodox liturgical work All-Night Vigil, op.52 by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky exhibits two distinctive characteristics. One is that Tchaikovsky used the Eastern Orthodox chant melodies, and second he makes the submediant chord a significant part of his …
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Alfred Schnittke’s quest for a universal musical language in the Penitential Psalms (1987–88)
… the musical elements associated with historical Russian Orthodox sacred music and Russian folkloric tradition with his own unique esthetic goals and personal compositional style to produce a blended, universal musical language.
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Resandets gränser : svenska resenärers skildringar av Ryssland under 1700-talet
… the unknown for knowledge to underpin both the Russian and the European self-image. The consequent knowledge of the Other, the people of north-east Siberia in particular, could then be disseminated throughout Europe’s universities and Academies of Science. Here, Russia is seen as a sort …
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An introduction to the choral music of Galina Grigorjeva
… compositional style and the influence of the Russian Orthodox tradition on her choral music. Grigorjeva, born in 1962, is a Ukraine-born Estonian composer, and has written over seventy compositions to date, twenty-two of which are choral works. She currently works as a freelancer composer in …
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Religious identities and allegiances in the transformation of Ukrainian national consciousness 2013-2018
… in the 2018 decision to combine two of Ukraine's Orthodox Churches into a united Church recognized for the first time by other Orthodox Churches outside of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church's operations in Ukraine continues to claim sole legitimacy, much like the Russian State's …
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Rewriting the Future: The Construction of Masculine Subjectivity Within Articulations of Russia's Post-Soviet National Idea
… enmeshed in understandings of quintessential Russianness. From discourses of the state under Vladimir Putin to those of the Russian Orthodox Church, actors with significant social and political power have constructed particular understandings of what it means to be Russian, and in so doing, …
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From Tempera to Ink to Code: The Other Media of Orthodox Iconography
… Tempera to Ink to Code traces the remediation of Orthodox icons. It examines icons’ unexplored, other media: cheap print, the book and digital media. Its interdisciplinary, cross-medial approach draws upon the fields of media studies, art history, art practice, religious studies, history and …
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The development of the Russian piano concerto in the nineteenth century.
The Russian piano concerto could not have had more inauspicious beginnings. Unlike the symphonic poem (and, indirectly, the symphony)- genres for which Glinka, the so-called 'Father of Russian Music', provided an invaluable model: 'Well? It's all in "Kamarinskaya", just as the whole oak is in the …
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Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
… is a great innovation of fifteenth-century Russian art. It represents the winged female Sophia flanked by the Theotokos and John the Baptist. Although the icon has a contemporaneous commentary and it exercised a profound influence on Russian cultural history (inspiring, among others, the …
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A Critical Assessment of Modern Qazaqs’ Historical Claim That Islam Is the Ancestral Faith
… faith. Modern Qazaqs point out that before the Russian colonization, Qazaqs professed Islam. Particularly, Hanafi Maturidism prevailed alongside Sufism. However, a careful examination of historical data and archaeological findings does not coincide with the broadcasted narrative on the …
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The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, op. 37
… little attention, however, has been given to Russian music, specifically liturgical repertoires, where tonal centricity has historically been weaker than in most tonal music. This dissertation investigates tonal disunity in Russian sacred works, with special emphasis on Rachmaninoff's …
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Living by the Sword: Religiosity and the Terrorist Subculture of Russian Revolutionaries, 1904-1910
… 1917, the SRs were the most influential party in Russian politics. Despite adhering to general secularist principles and ruthlessly attacking the Russian Orthodox Church, SR activists frequently employed religious rhetoric, both propagandistically and in private correspondence. I argue that this …
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Life, Work and the Individual Classical Performer: Maria Yudina's Artistic Practice and Imagination, 1947–70
… them through a study of the twentieth-century Russian pianist Maria Veniaminovna Yudina (1899–1970), a neglected but enormously significant musician in the Soviet Union. I consider these issues and introduce Yudina in Chapters 1–2. I then undertake several case studies based around Yudina’s …
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Building empire among the Buryats: conversion encounters in Russia's Baikal region, 1860s - 1917
This dissertation argues that encounters between Russian Orthodox missionaries and the Buryats with whom they worked in Russia’s Siberian Baikal region between the 1860s and 1917 epistemologically emplaced the Buryats within the empire and caused Orthodoxy to assume the role of bearer of imperial …
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Cum illi Graeci sint, nos Latini : Western Rite Orthodoxy and the Eastern Orthodox Church
… the conversion of Julius Joseph Overbeck to the Russian Orthodox Church in London. Since that time, there have been attempts and successes in establishing a Western Rite in the Eastern Church. This thesis approaches Western Rite Orthodoxy as an established phenomenon in Eastern Christianity, …
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Writing the Name: Sergii Bulgakov and the Discipline of Speculation
… thesis is a critical exposition of the work of Russian philosopher-theologian Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944). It provides a much-needed account of his work that illuminates his centrality within twentieth-century Russian philosophy of language, and reveals his capacity to revitalise conversations …