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Russian Folk Songs
Musical Genres and History
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2002
Summary
Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life, wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.
Russian folk songs have always played an essential part in Russian life, culture, and music. They have played an important part in the work of many great Russian composers including Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokoviev, and Stravinsky. In this new study, Vadim Prokhorov provides a historical survey and a description of the musical and poetic characteristics of Russian folk song. The songs themselves are classified into several categories: calendar songs, lyric songs, work songs, epic songs, historical songs, and the urban songs that emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Prokhorov provides a basis for understanding the ethnomusicological principles of Russian folk song. In addition to his discussion of the various categories, he includes a generous selection of songs arranged for voice and piano, together with texts and translations of the song texts. Anyone interested in this rich repertory of folk song, whether as teacher, singer, or music lover, will find this a rewarding collection.
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Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-4127-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-0182-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
166
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CONTENTS No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Guide to Transliteration and Pronunciation No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1 Calendar Songs No access Pages 17 - 46
2 Lyric Songs No access Pages 47 - 102
3 Work Songs No access Pages 103 - 110
4 Bylinas (Epic Songs) No access Pages 111 - 116
5 Historical Songs No access Pages 117 - 122
6 Urban Songs No access Pages 123 - 150
Glossary of Russian Words No access Pages 151 - 152
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 154
Subject and Name Index No access Pages 155 - 156
Song Index No access Pages 157 - 158
About the Author No access Pages 159 - 166
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