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History of music in Russia from antiquity to 1800
Ocherki po istorii muzyki v Rossii. English
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- Creator
- Nikolai Findeizen ; translation by Samuel William Pring ; edited and annotated by Miloš Velimirović and Claudia R. Jensen ; with the assistance of Malcolm Hamrick Brown and Daniel C. Waugh
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- English
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
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- 2 volumes : illustrations, music ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780253348258, 0253348250, 9780253348265, 0253348269
- OCLC
- ocm76481381
- Translated from the Russian.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Vol. 1. From antiquity to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Introduction. The predecessors of the Slavs ; Pagan Rus' ; Kievan Rus' ; Novgorod the Great ; The activities of the Skomorokhi in Russia ; Music and musical instruments in Russian miniatures, woodcuts, and glossaries ; A survey of old Russian folk instruments ; Music in ancient Moscow (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) ; Music in the monastery. Chashi (toasts). Bell ringing. Sacred performances (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) ; Music in court life in the seventeenth century ; A brief survey of singers, composers, and music theorists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; Music and theater in the age of Peter the Great -- Vol. 2. The eighteenth century. Music and theater, 1730-1740 ; Music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II ; Music in Russia's domestic life during the second half of the eighteenth century ; The Russian horn band ; Music in Russian public life during the second half of the eighteenth century ; Musical creativity in Russia during the eighteenth century ; Literature about music, publishers and sellers of sheet music, instrument makers and merchants