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Eighteenth-Century Russian Music (Paperback)
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Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical
heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has
tended to view the history of Russian music as not beginning until
the end of the eighteenth century. Marina Ritzarev's work shows
this interpretation to be misguided. Starting from an examination
of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, she explores the
development of music over the course of the eighteenth century, a
period of especially intense Westernization and secularization. The
book focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music
during this period, rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive
survey. The musical culture of the time is discussed against the
rich background of social, political and cultural life, tying
together many of the phenomena that used to be viewed separately.
The book highlights the importance of previously marginalized
sectors - serf culture, choral sacred culture, the contribution of
foreign musicians, the significant influence of Freemasonry, the
role of Ukrainian and West-European cultures and so on - as well as
casting new light on the well-researched topic of Russian opera.
Much new archival material is introduced, and revised biographies
of the two leading eighteenth-century Russian composers, Maxim
Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, are provided, as well as those
of the serf composer Stepan Degtyarev and the Italian Giuseppe
Sarti. The book places eighteenth-century Russian music on the
European map, and will be of particular importance for the study of
European musical cultures remote from such centres as Italy,
Germany-Austria and France. Eighteenth-century Russian music is
organically linked with its past and future and its contributory
role in forming the Russian national identity and developing the
Russian idiom is clarified.
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