Overview

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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Author:   Larry Sitsky
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 31
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.624kg
ISBN:  

9780313267093

ISBN 10:   031326709
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   29 September 1994
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations Acknowledgments Historical Background: Anatoliy V. Lunacharsky, the Cultured Commissar The Precursors Vladimir I. Rebikov: The Inventor of Whole-Tone Music Aleksei V. Stanchinskiy: The Diatonic Webern The Big Three Nikolai A. Roslavets: The Russian Schoenberg Aleksandr V. Mosolov: The Man of Steel Arthur V. Lourie: The Decadent Out of Place The Smaller Five Leonid A. Polovinkin: The Partial Avant-Gardist Vladimir V. Shcherbachev: Old Wine in New Vessels Lev K. Knipper: Wind from the West Boris N. Liatoshinski: The Passionate Slav Vladimir M. Deshevov: The Man of the Theater The Reluctant Avant-Gardists Samuil E. Feinberg: The Post-Scriabin Pianist Anatoliy N. Aleksandrov: The Post-Rachmaninovian Boris A. Aleksandrov: Son of the Composer of the Soviet Anthem The Jewish School Aleksandr A. Krein: Voice in the Wilderness Grigoriy A. Krein: Toward Assimilation Yulian G. Krein: Precocious Cosmopolitan Aleksandr M. Veprik: The Ukrainian Bartok and Bloch Mikhail F. Gnessin: The Jewish Glinka Composers in Exile Ivan A. Vishnegradsky: Microtones Nikolai Obukhov: Mystic Beyond Scriabin Iosif M. Schillinger: Gershwin's Teacher Aleksandr N. Tcherepnine: Suave Internationalist Musicologists and Transients Sergei V. Protopopov: The Post-Scriabin Composer Leonid L. Sabaneev: Would-be Scientist Becomes Critic Dmitriy M. Melkikh: Rhapsodist Gavrill N. Popov: Contrapuntalist Aleksei S. Zhivotov: Notorious for One Piece Efim Golyshchev: The First Serialist? Georgi M. Rimsky-Korsakov: Microtonist Appendix: Further Scores for Study and Reference Index

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?This study will undoubtedly lead to further musicological research, and the book should be a part of every academic music library. All levels.?-Choice ?This work is recommended for all public and academic libraries with larger music collections and individuals who are interested in avant-grade and experimental music.?-ARBA 95 This study will undoubtedly lead to further musicological research, and the book should be a part of every academic music library. All levels. -Choice This work is recommended for all public and academic libraries with larger music collections and individuals who are interested in avant-grade and experimental music. -ARBA 95

"?This study will undoubtedly lead to further musicological research, and the book should be a part of every academic music library. All levels.?-Choice ?This work is recommended for all public and academic libraries with larger music collections and individuals who are interested in avant-grade and experimental music.?-ARBA 95 ""This study will undoubtedly lead to further musicological research, and the book should be a part of every academic music library. All levels.""-Choice ""This work is recommended for all public and academic libraries with larger music collections and individuals who are interested in avant-grade and experimental music.""-ARBA 95"

This work is recommended for all public and academic libraries with larger music collections and individuals who are interested in avant-grade and experimental music. -ARBA 95 This study will undoubtedly lead to further musicological research, and the book should be a part of every academic music library. All levels. -Choice ?This study will undoubtedly lead to further musicological research, and the book should be a part of every academic music library. All levels.?-Choice ?This work is recommended for all public and academic libraries with larger music collections and individuals who are interested in avant-grade and experimental music.?-ARBA 95

?This work is recommended for all public and academic libraries with larger music collections and individuals who are interested in avant-grade and experimental music.?-ARBA 95

Author Information

LARRY SITSKY is Head, Department of Composition, Canberra School of Music, Australia. He is the composer of many musical compositions, and is probably Australia's most commissioned composer. He has, as a pianist, issued a number of CDs of contemporary and mainstream music. As an author, he has written extensively for professional publications. He is the author of Greenwood's Busoni and the Piano (1986) and The Reproducing Piano Roll (2 vols., 1990), as well as the forthcoming Piano Compositions of Anton Rubinstein.

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