{"title":"Provincial Conflicts: Concerning the Issue of “the Center vs the Periphery” in the Activities of the Imperial Russian Musical Society","authors":"Vera B. Valkova","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.140-147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.140-147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127711081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Images of the String Quartet in the Thematicism of Haydn’s Clavier Sonatas","authors":"Amina I. Asfandyarova","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.029-033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.029-033","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents semantic deciphering of fragments of thematicism of Joseph Haydn’s clavier sonatas from the point of view of the reduced score, reflecting the attributes of acoustic images of musical instruments and their diverse ensemble combinations. The deciphering presents the key towards performance of intonational etudes – artistic assignments dealing with articulation and transformation of clavier texts into an ensemble score in concordance with the traditions of 18th century salon music-making. The performer’s artistic work with the music in a piano score may be carried out with the active use of synthesizers. The two-staff keyboard graphics of the thematic development of Haydn’s sonatas reflects a large number of other, non-keyboard musical texts existing in a concealed form of a reduced score. The author presents a semantic deciphering of images of string quartets. The ability to see in the graphics of the music their most important artistic components is conducive to leading towards a delicate semantic deciphering of the composition for clavier from the perspective of a concealed score. This is exceedingly important for a sensible interpretation and stylistic articulation of Haydn’s sonatas. Keywords: Joseph Haydn, Haydn’s clavier sonatas, musical thematicism, acoustic images in Haydn’s sonatas, keyboard synthesizer.","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126644363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Musical Pages of the Archives of the Family of Emperor Nicholas II","authors":"Oksana E. Sheludyakova","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.074-079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.074-079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114997662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the Russian Musical Society. A Sociocultural Aspect of Interaction","authors":"Elena E. Polotskaya","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.080-090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.080-090","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the multifaceted relations between Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the Russian Musical Society (RMS) in the aspect of their interaction and mutual influence. This relationship began during the period of Tchaikovsky’s studies at the Musical Classes affiliated with the RMS, and then at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, which presented a structural component of the RMS. It was particularly to the directorate of the RMS that in 1862 Tchaikovsky wrote his request about his enrollment at the Conservatory, and particularly the concerts organized by the RMS shaped the foundation of his compositional talent. Having become a professor of music theory at the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky entered into titular relations with the RMS as the superior organization: he signed official contracts, presented himself for rewards, and received material assistant. As a music critic Tchaikovsky illuminated the Society’s activities in the press for almost ten years. The creative path of Tchaikovsky the composer is connected in the closest manner with the RMS: he received commissions from the Society to write compositions; various regional sections of the Society (primarily, the Moscow and St. Petersburg Sections) presented concert venues to him; many premieres of Tchaikovsky’s works took place at the orchestral and chamber assemblies of the RMS. The rise in the number of concerts of the RMS with Tchaikovsky’s music towards the second half of the 1880s, and then the loss of this precedence indicates at the tendency of the decrease of the prestige of the RMS and the increase of the authority of other concert organizations in the early 1890s. An aspiration to halt the decline in the RMS was what in many ways stipulated Tchaikovsky’s activities as the director of the Moscow Section of the RMS, his work on inviting outstanding musicians for participation in the Society’s concerts, as well as the activities of Tchaikovsky the conductor during the period of his directorship. No less significant from the historical perspective the endeavors of Tchaikovsky the director were connected with his aspiration to uphold the high tradition of the Moscow Conservatory, in light of which we may view his initiatives of confirming Sergei Taneyev on the post of the director of the conservatory and inviting Vassily Safonov. In this manner the article traces the mutual advantage of Tchaikovsky’s interactions with the RMS on a historical-cultural scale. Keywords: Piotr I. Tchaikovsky, the Russian Musical Society, the first conservatories in Russia, concert life in Russia of the 2nd half of the 19th century, performances of Tchaikovsky’s music during his lifetime.","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"230 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132528013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Imperial Russian Musical Society in Siberian Cities at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century: Problems and Achievements","authors":"Lada L. Pylneva","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.180-186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.180-186","url":null,"abstract":"The work of the Imperial Russian Musical Society (IRMS) in the cities of Siberia is examined in the article. Two main directions of activity – performance and education. The success of the work on organizing concerts was connected with the cities of Tomsk, Tobolsk, Omsk and Irkutsk, where professional musicians performed, efforts were undertaken in creation of orchestral and choral ensembles, and tours were organized by European performers. The programs included compositions by European and Russian classics, contemporary works, including little known oeuvres. By the efforts of the members of the organization, numerous thematic concerts devoted to the musical legacy (Mikhail Glinka, Anton Rubinstein, Piotr Tchaikovsky) were arranged. The genre scope of the compositions was quite broad – from songs and art songs to string quartets and symphonies. Outstanding performers took part in the concerts. Graduates of the Musical Classes of the IRMS had the opportunity to continue their education in conservatories, some of them became professional artists. The work of the Society was widely covered in the Siberian press, including the publications “Sibirskaya zhizn'” [“Siberian Life”], “Tomskiy listok” [“The Tomsk Leaf”], “Vostochnoe obozrenie” [“The Eastern Overview”], and “Sibirskiy vestnik” [“The Siberian Herald”]. The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research: Grant No. 17-04-00443 a. Keywords: Russian Musical Society (RMO), the musical culture of Siberia, Musical Classes, the Siberian press, musical performance.","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130802585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Moscow Conservatory: From the Russian Musical Society to the People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment","authors":"Vladimir I. Adishchev","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.148-153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.148-153","url":null,"abstract":"The history of the Moscow Conservatory has been actively researched, however, many themes and subjects from its past have remained insufficiently studied up to the present time. Among them are the activities of the Conservatory during its first post-revolutionary years, in particular, the procedure of its nationalization and transferal from subservience to the Russian Musical Society (RMS) to the jurisdiction of the People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment (Narkompros). It becomes possible to fill in the indicated gap by means of turning to archival sources, which bear witness that in mid-1918 the Narkompros prepared the project of a special decree about the separation of the conservatories of the two capital cities from the RMS and their transferal to the Narkompros. This project was examined and affirmed with a few minor changes at the session of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR on July 12, 1918. The “Decree Concerning the Moscow and Petrograd Conservatories” proclaimed these educational institutions as belonging to the state, equal in their status to institutions of higher education. After this decree was issued, a specially created commission of representatives of the RMS, the Narkompros, its Music Section and the Moscow Conservatory carried out the acceptance and transferal of the Conservatory from one department to the other. The Narkompros, and from it the Conservatory, received from the RMS financial means, the building with the concert halls, the musical instruments present in it, various other property and the inventory. From the 1918–1919 academic year the Conservatory gradually began to witness transformations taking place in it along the vein of establishment of the cultural and educational polity of the Soviet regime. Keywords: Russian Musical Society (RMS), People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment, the Moscow Conservatory.","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123901977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Russian Musical Society under Royal Patronage","authors":"G. Moiseev","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.066-073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.066-073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133400934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Innovations of the Imperial Russian Musical Society of the Second Half of the 19th Century: The Dialogue between the Government and the Musical Community","authors":"Natalia Efimova","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.154-160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.154-160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128400604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the Activities of the Tsaritsyn Section of the Imperial Russian Musical Society and the “Cultural Revolution” in Pre-Revolutionary Tsaritsyn","authors":"Elena V. Smagina","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.193-198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.193-198","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to analysis of the activities of the Tsaritsyn Section of the Imperial Russian Musical Society (IRMS) and an evaluation of its influence on the musical culture of pre-revolutionary Tsaritsyn (presently Volgograd). The author examines the history of the emergence of this Section (a circle of music lovers – the local section of the IRMS – Musical Classes affiliated with it – a Musical College), as well as the main direction of its educational and concert-enlightening work (emphasis is made on chamber music and orchestral concerts, as well as concert performances of opera scenes). Some of the prominent public figures of the Tsaritsyn Section are also presented, including enlightened merchants-patrons (Alexander Repnikov, Alexander Lapshin), instructors of Musical Classes (Anatoly Orlov – the first director, Alexei Serebryakov, Ivan Peregudov), and the most talented graduates of the Classes (Pavel Serebryakov); their merits are highlighted. For the first time in regional music research the achievements of the Tsaritsyn Section are presented in the context of the complex historical path of Tsaritsyn, which for a lengthy time (for nearly three centuries: from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century) has been in a situation of economic and cultural stagnation. On the basis of the data brought in the article (including those from archival sources) the author formulates a conclusion about the historical role of Tsaritsyn Section of the IRMS as a social force, which carried out a truly revolutionary change in the musical culture of pre-revolutionary Tsaritsyn. Keywords: musical culture of Tsaritsyn, the Tsaritsyn Section of the Imperial Russian Musical Society, the merchant patrons Alexander Lapshin and Alexander Repnikov, Pavel Serebryakov.","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127204192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kazan Section of the Imperial Russian Musical Society and its Role in the Development of the Musical Culture of the Volga-Kama Region","authors":"E. Porfirieva","doi":"10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.161-166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2018.4.161-166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171243,"journal":{"name":"Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noj Nauki","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116902198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}