By Lynn M. Sargeant
ISBN-10: 019978079X
ISBN-13: 9780199780792
Harmony and Discord: tune and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the advanced improvement of Russian musical lifestyles through the 19th and early 20th centuries. on the center of this cultural historical past lies the Russian Musical Society, as either a distinct motive force in the back of the institutionalization of song and a consultant of the transforming into value of voluntary institutions in public lifestyles. Sustained at the same time by means of inner most initiative and cooperative relationships with the nation, the Russian Musical Society performed a key function within the construction of Russia's infrastructure for song and song schooling.
Author Lynn M. Sargeant explores the fluid nature of Russian social identification in the course of the huge scope of musical existence, together with not just the "leading lighting" of the period but additionally rank-and-file musicians, lecturers, and scholars. even supposing Russian musicians longed for a safe position in the new hierarchy of professions, their social prestige remained ambiguous in the course of the 19th century. conventional reliance on serf musicians and foreigners left lasting scars that inspired musicians' efforts to procure criminal rights and social respectability. And women's expanding visibility within the musical global provoked acrimonious debates that have been, at center, efforts through male musicians to bolster their claims to expert prestige by way of denying the legitimacy of lady participation. Sargeant demonstrates that the profitable improvement of a Russian musical infrastructure salved chronic anxieties approximately Russia's position vis-à-vis its ecu cultural rivals. Remarkably, the associations constructed by way of the Russian Musical Society survived the upheavals of conflict and revolution to develop into the root for the Soviet musical system.
A wealth of historic documentation makes Harmony and Discord required studying for musicologists, sociologists and historians drawn to this era, and the abundance of fun anecdotes and the author's lucid and energetic literary variety make it an stress-free heritage for all readers.
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M. Tolstoy, and M. P. Shchulepnikov, benefited the Society for Visiting the Poor, a worthy cause. It was a desire to draw a larger audience and generate greater profits for charity that prompted the organizers to plan and promote a Russian concert. They counted on the novelty of the event to attract casual listeners as well as dedicated concertgoers, a strategy that Odoevsky recognized immediately. “There is no doubt that the hall of the Noble’s Assembly will be full; in the first place because the Petersburg public loves to be philanthropic, especially when it can be charitable while enjoying itself; in the second place because this Russian concert .
In its modest incarnation, the home served as the site for a multitude of music lessons, on voice, piano, or another instrument, for the daughters and sons of the nobility and the merchantry. In theory, if not always in practice, the skills acquired in these lessons created the basis for a domestic musical life of mutual performance and shared music making. ”22 Domestic music making, with its reliance on sentimental romances, salon pieces, and piano transcriptions of larger orchestral and operatic works, brought into the home the passionate emotions that characterized the sacralized art of the Romantic era.
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich was a keen amateur cellist, while his wife, Grand Duchess Aleksandra Iosifovna tried her hand at composition. 21 Thus music was a domestic focal point for the Romanovs as for most Russian noble families. The home was the heart of Russian musical life. In its modest incarnation, the home served as the site for a multitude of music lessons, on voice, piano, or another instrument, for the daughters and sons of the nobility and the merchantry. In theory, if not always in practice, the skills acquired in these lessons created the basis for a domestic musical life of mutual performance and shared music making.
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