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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"russian music"”.
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The impact of Russian music in England 1893-1929
… thesis is an investigation into the reception of Russian music in England for the period 1893-1929 and the influence it had on English composers. Part I deals with the critical reception of Russian music in England in the cultural and political context of the period from the year of Tchaikovsky’s …
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Triadic Music in Twentieth-Century Russia
<p>Twentieth-century Russian music exhibits a diversity of approaches to triadic composition. Triads appear in harmonic contexts that range from tonal to atonal, as well as in referential contexts where triadic music evokes historical styles. Theorists in Russia have approached this repertoire from …
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Perfume of the Soul: Compositional Influences of Emile Naoumoff
… according to Naoumoff, reflects the influence of Russian music, and this recurring element is seen repeatedly from his early Nocturne to his very latest improvisations.
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An Analytical Study of Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev's Musical Style in his Early Piano and Orchestra Works: Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folk Songs and Concerto Op.1 in F# Minor.
… piano and orchestra works, Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folk Songs and Concerto Op. 1 in F# Minor, were composed in the middle of the nineteenth century when in Russia there were no particularly important works for piano and orchestra. Balakirev was still a teenager when he wrote these two pieces …
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Modeste Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death (A Performer's Guide)
… <p>Modeste Petrovich Mussorgsky, one of the Russian composers known as the "Mighty Handful," was an innovator of Russian music. Mussorgsky is widely recognized for the genius of his opera Boris Godunov, but his songs are a significant part of his output and not as well known. Songs and Dances …
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Russian Jazz with Bolshevik Trimmings: Modernist Composer-Pianists in Revolutionary Russia
… of the extraordinarily diverse period in Russian music between the emergence of pre-Revolutionary modernism in the early twentieth century and the publication of the “Muddle Instead of Music” article in 1936, the lack of State intervention in artistic matters up until the early 1930s …
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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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An historical and analytical survey of the Transcendental Etudes by Sergei Liapunov.
… Liapunov (1859-1924) was a distinguished Russian composer, pianist and teacher of the late 19th and early 20th century whose works are relatively unknown. His piano pieces were highly regarded and performed by pianists such as Konstantin Igumnov, Josef Hofmann, Josef Lhévinne, Ferruccio …
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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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Kohti Kalevala-sarjaa : Identiteetti, eklektisyys ja Ranskan jälki Uuno Klamin musiikissa
… as one of the most esteemed figures in the musical life of his country through his election to the Academy of Finland. Yet Klami was also a controversial figure. His music was felt to be fragmentary, derivative, and oddly detached in tone, and his contemporaries found it notably difficult to …
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Turgenev and the question of the Russian artist
This thesis is concerned with the thoughts of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) on the development of the arts in his native country and the specific problems facing the Russian artist. It starts by considering the state of the creative arts in Russia in the early nineteenth century and …
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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs
… discourse analysis, with both their visual and musical elements considered, but with a special emphasis placed on the song lyrics. In the thesis, I begin with examining the songs at the level of ‘syntax’ – paying particular attention to how identity work is mobilized through history, language, …