A Russian Folk Calendar
Author: Polina Rozhnova
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
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Russian Magic
Author: Cherry Gilchrist
Publisher: Quest Books
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0835608743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the heart of Russia, old ways of perceiving the spirits of home and nature still prevail. Fairy stories, folk art, and calendar customs carry hints of the old gods and offer a now rare way of linking human life to the landscape. This is as true for city dwellers and villagers, for the Russian soul is open to the power of myth and the mysteries of the universe. This book explains how Russia's concept of soul ("dusha") and sensitivity to the landscape extends to archaeologists, scientists, and doctors in Russia, who retain an open-minded approach and a keen interest in psychic phenomena, along with folk traditions and faith healing. Author Cherry Gilchrist has traveled often to Russia and researched its traditional lore, gaining knowledge she interweaves into this book. She blends that first-hand knowledge with serious research to paint a lively picture of these remarkable magical traditions and their enduring power.
Russian Folk Belief
Author: Linda J. Ivanits
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-04
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1317460391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Russian Folk Songs
Author: Vadim Prokhorov
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Author: Vadim Prokhorov
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2002-01-08
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1461701821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Calendar
Author: University of Manchester
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 748
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussian Folk Lyrics
Author: Roberta Reeder
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1993-02-22
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780253207494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPropp'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.
Archaic images of North Russian folklore and origin of the Indo-Europeans
Author: S.V. Zharnikova
Publisher: WP IPGEB
Published:
Total Pages: 225
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book of outstanding researchers A.G. Vinogradov and S.V. Zharnikova is devoted to the study of the ancestral home of the Indo-European peoples: Indian, Iranian, Slavic, Baltic, German, Celtic, Romance, Albanian, Armenian and Greek language groups. The book is devoted to archaic images of North Russian folklore. The book was written in 1989-90, but could not be published in Russia. Over the past time, additional materials have appeared that confirm the opinion of the authors.
Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines
Author: Patricia Monaghan, PhD
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1608682188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore Than 1,000 Goddesses & Heroines from around the World Groundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. Her work demonstrated that from the beginning of recorded history, goddesses reigned alongside their male counterparts as figures of inspiration and awe. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, literature, and psychology, Monaghan’s vibrant and accessible encyclopedia covers female deities from Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, Asia and Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, as well as every major religious tradition.
