Russian Folk Lyrics
Russian Folk Lyrics

Author: Roberta Reeder

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1993-02-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780253207494

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Propp's essay in Russian Folk Lyrics extends beyond the formalistic analysis of folklore outlined in his classic The Morphology of the Folktale. In this study, newly translated by Roberta Reeder, Propp considers the Russian folk lyric in the social and historical context in which it was produced. Reeder supplements Propp's theoretical presentation with a comprehensive anthology of examples. Some songs were imitated by or appear in the works of Russia's major writers, such as Pushkin and Nekrasov. Here we find the customs of Russian peasant life expressed through the ritual of song. Whether the songs are about love, labor, or children's games; whether they are sad, humorous, or satiric in tone, Russian folk lyrics are rich in metaphor and symbolic meaning. In addition to the editor's notes to the text and songs, Reeder supplies a bibliography of Propp's sources as well as an extensive selected bibliography.

Down Along the Mother Volga
Down Along the Mother Volga

Author: Roberta Reeder

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 151280553X

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Russian Folk Songs
Russian Folk Songs

Author: Vadim Prokhorov

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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The study is supplemented with over ninety musical examples and includes a comprehensive musical and poetic anthology, with lyrics in both Russian and English."--BOOK JACKET.

Russian Folk Songs
Russian Folk Songs

Author: Vadim Prokhorov

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2002-01-08

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1461701821

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"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.

Russian Folk Belief
Russian Folk Belief

Author: Linda J. Ivanits

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-04

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1317460391

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A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. Each of the seven chapters in Part 1 focuses on one aspect of Russian folk belief, such as the pagan background, Christian personages, devils and various other logical categories of the topic. The author's thesis - that Russian folk belief represents a "double faith" whereby Slavic pagan beliefs are overlaid with popular Christianity - is persuasive and has analogies in other cultures. The folk narratives constituting Part 2 are translated and include a wide range of tales, from the briefly anecdotal to the more fully developed narrative, covering the various folk personages and motifs explored in Part 1.

Handbook of Russian Literature
Handbook of Russian Literature

Author: Victor Terras

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780300048681

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Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays

The Study of Russian Folklore
The Study of Russian Folklore

Author: Felix J. Oinas

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-03-18

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 3110813912

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An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics

Author: James Bailey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 131747693X

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An extensive introduction provides basic information about Russian epics, their historical background, their poetics, the history of their collection, their performance context, and their main interpretations. In addition, their is a short introduction to each song, explaining its plot, allusions, and interpretations. A glossary of common terms and a selected bibliography of studies about the Russian epic in English and Russian are also included in the volume.

Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture
Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture

Author: Elena Polyudova

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1443889741

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This volume presents a unique study of war songs created during and after World War II, known in Russia as the “Great Patriotic War”. The most popular war songs, such as “Katyusha”, “The Sacred War”, “Dark Night”, “My Moscow”, “In the Dugout”, “Victory Day”, provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia. In the year of the 70th anniversary of victory in the war, the book studies the cultural heritage of famous war songs from a new perspective, exploring the historical background of their creation and analysing their lyrics as part of Russian cultural heritage. The book also discusses the modifications required when translating the songs from Russian to English. It concludes with a description an educational project studying war songs at Moscow schools run under the auspices of UNESCO.