Choral performance in pre-revolutionary Russia / by Vladimir Morosan.
| Author/creator | Morosan, Vladimir |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Research Press, ©1986. |
| Description | xx, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Russian music studies ; no. 17 Russian music studies ; no. 17. ^A137785 |
| Contents | Part one: The historical development of choral singing in Russia. 1. The period of monophony and early polyphony. The origins of liturgical singing in Kievan Russia ; The period of the Tatar Yoke ; The singing masters of Novgorod ; Demestvennyi singing ; Early Russian polyphony ; Demestvennyi polyphony ; The Tsar's singing clerics -- 2. The introduction and spread of choral part-singing. Part-singing in Southwest Russia ; Part-singing in Muscovy ; The dichotomy between Partesnyi singing and chant ; The court choir under Peter the Great and his successors ; The influence of visiting Italian maestri ; The Moscow synodal choir in the eighteenth century ; Other vocal establishments in the eighteenth century ; The influence of the Imperial Court Chapel under Bortniansky -- 3. The emergence of a national choral style. The Imperial Court Chapel under Fyodor L'vov ; The Imperial Court Chapel under Aleksei L'vov ; Categories of choirs in nineteenth-century Russia ; Factors that contributed to the growth of the New Russian Choral School ; The contribution of liturgical musicologists ; The role of public sacred concerts ; The collapse of the Imperial Chapel's censorship ; A. A. Arkhangel'sky's choir ; M. A. Balakirev and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov at the Imperial Chapel ; The decline of the Imperial Chapel ; The rise to preeminence of the Moscow Synodal Choir ; Secular choral music, the choir of the Free Musical School ; I. A. Mel'nikov's Free Choral Class conducted by F. F. Bekker ; The Russian Choral Society of Moscow ; D. A. Agrenev-Slaviansky's cappella ; Peasant folk choirs ; Perceptions of Russian choirs outside Russia -- Part two: Choral performance in the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. 4. The choral instrument in Russia. Vocal pedagogy in Russia ; Vocal training of choirs ; The numerical composition of choirs ; The positioning of the singers ; The characteristics of choral voices ; The bass voice in Russian choral singing ; Boys' versus women's voices ; Concepts of choral sonority -- 5. The choral conductors. The training of choral conductors in Russia ; The role of the conductor ; The early conductors: Lomakin, L'vovsky, and Bagretsov ; The St. Petersburg School: Aleksandr Andreevich Arkhangel'sky ; The Moscow School: Vasily Sergeevich Orlov ; Aleksandr Dmitrievich Kastal'sky ; Nikolai Mikhailovich Danilin ; Pavel Grigor-evich Chesnokov -- 6. The style of the New Russian Choral School. The classification of Russian choral music ; The musical structure of the Orthodox liturgy ; Stylistic categories in Russian sacred choral music ; The influence of Stepan Vasil'evich Smolenksy ; The style of Aleksandr Dmitrievich Kastal'sky ; The style of Pavel Grigor'evich Chesnokov ; The style of Aleksandr Vasil'evich Nikol'sky ; The style of Nikolai Ivanovich Kompaneisky ; The style of Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov ; The style of Viktor Sergeevich Kalinnikov ; Other composers in Moscow and St. Petersburg ; The style of Sergei Vasil'evich Rachmaninoff -- 7. Problems of performance practice in the sacred music of the New Russian Choral School. The sources of neumatic chant ; Problems of pitch ; Problems of rhythm and meter ; Problems of tempo ; Problems of articulation ; Problems of dynamics ; Syllabic and recitative chant ; Problems of rhythm in syllabic and recitative chant ; Problems of tempo and recitative ; Soloists in church singing ; Problems of pronunciation and diction ; Problems of the performance context ; The problem of interpretation. |
| General note | Revision of the author's thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1984. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 353-363) and index. |
| LCCN | 86001266 |
| ISBN | 0835717135 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780835717137 (alk. paper) |
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