History of music in Russia from antiquity to 1800 / Nikolai Findeizen ; translation by Samuel William Pring ; edited and annotated by Milos Velimirovic and Claudia R. Jensen ; with the assistance of Malcolm Hamrick Brown and Daniel C. Waugh.

Author: Fendeizen, N. F. (Nikolai Fedorovich), 1868-1928.

Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008

Description2 v. : ill., music ; 27 cm.

Note:Vol. 1. From antiquity to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Introduction. The predecessors of the Slavs ; Pagan Rus' ; Kievan Rus' ; Novgorod the Great ; The activities of the Skomorokhi in Russia ; Music and musical instruments in Russian miniatures, woodcuts, and glossaries ; A survey of old Russian folk instruments ; Music in ancient Moscow (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) ; Music in the monastery. Chashi (toasts). Bell ringing. Sacred performances (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) ; Music in court life in the seventeenth century ; A brief survey of singers, composers, and music theorists of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries ; Music and theater in the age of Peter the Great -- Vol. 2. The eighteenth century. Music and theater, 1730-1740 ; Music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II ; Music in Russia's domestic life during the second half of the eighteenth century ; The Russian horn band ; Music in Russian public life during the second half of the eighteenth century ; Musical creativity in Russia during the eighteenth century ; Literature about music, publishers and sellers of sheet music, instrument makers and merchants.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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