Where is Russia? Political map of Russia Physical map of Russia.
Music of Russia
description
Transcript of Music of Russia
![Page 1: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Music of Russia
![Page 3: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Overview
• Largest country in world (spans Europe and Asia)
• Demographics: 80% ethnic Russian
• Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy (establ. 988) is predominant
• 1861-abolition of serfdom
• 1917-coup ended 300 years of monarchy
• 1922- Soviet Union formed (White Army defeated)
• 1991-dissolution of Soviet Union
![Page 4: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Music of the Peasants• Feudal social system:
serfs considered property of landowner, obliged to give percentage of crop to landowner
• Layering of Christian traditions and rituals over older pagan beliefs
• Lives governed by family and agricultural cycles
1909 Peasant Girls (Prokudin-Gorskii)
![Page 5: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Peasant Music
• Songs and music were integral to village life
• Types of songs: 1. calendar songs (e.g. pre-Lenten songs,
seasonal festivals, harvest songs2. rite of passage songs (esp. wedding songs
and dances)3. Work songs (e.g. harvesting, haymaking)
![Page 6: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Music of the Cossacks• Militaristic communities,
renowned for self-reliance and horsemanship
• Allegiances: religion and motherland
• Group singing is heterophonic, melody is middle voice
• Songs often historical epics
![Page 7: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
The Russian Folk Orchestra
• Originated in 19th cent. Elite interest in “national character”.
![Page 8: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Vasiliy Vasilievich Andreyev (1861-1918)
• “Father” of the Russian Folk Orchestra
• Adapted and arranged folk music for the salon and stage
• Composed new pieces
![Page 9: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Russian Folk Orchestra
• Appropriated, controlled, used by Soviets as state-supported “new folk music.”
• Establishment of conservatories for study of “folk instruments” (i.e. balalaika, domra, bayan); composition, conducting
• Post-Soviet period, “Russian Folk Music” conservatories and ensembles still exist.
![Page 10: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
InstrumentsBALALAIKA
BAYAN
DOMRA
GUSLI
![Page 11: Music of Russia](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062411/568167e1550346895ddd4453/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
The Slavonic Bass• Feodor Chaliapin (Russian)
(1873-1938). Considered one of greatest opera singers; debuted with Met in 1907; lived in exile since 1921.
• Boris Christoff (Bulgarian) (1914-1993). Sang as boy in church choir; famous for opera; religious music; Russian songs.