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Contributions to the study of music and dance, 0193-9041 ; no. 31
Contributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 31. 0193-9041 ^A466730
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Historical background. Anatoliy V. Lunacharsky, the cultured commissar -- The precursors. Vladimir I. Rebikov: the inventor of whole-tone music -- Aleksi V. Stanchinskiy [Stanchinsky]: the diatonic Webern -- The big three. Nikolai A. Roslavets: the Russian Schoenberg -- Aleksandr V. Mosolov [Mossolov]: 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 [Lyatoshynsky]: the passionate Slav -- Vladimir M. Deshevov: the man of the theater -- The reluctant avant-gardists. Samuil E. Feinberg: the post-Scriabin pianist -- Anatoly N. Aleksandrov [Alexandrov]: 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 [Weprik]: the Ukrainian Bartok and Block -- Mikhail F. Gnessin: the Jewish Glinka -- Composers in exile. Ivan A. Vyshnegradsky [Wyschnegradsky]: microtones -- Nikolai Obukhov [Obouhov]: mystic beyond Scriabin -- Iosif M. Schillinger: Gershwin's teacher -- Aleksandr N. Tcherepnine: suave internationalist -- Musicologist and transients. Sergei V. Protopopov: the post-Scriabin composer -- Leonard L. Sabaneev [Sabaneyev]: 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. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 93035836 |
| ISBN | 031326709X |
