(Caricature of the Moguchaya Kuchka by Konstantin Makovsky—1871)
Useful Links:
Evening Course Russian (Stanford Language Institute, Dublin)
Evening Course Russian (Trinity College Dublin)
Russian Biographical Dictionary
Bibliography (Russian Music):
Abraham, Gerald, ‘The Elements of Russian Music’, Music and Letters, 9/1 (1928), 51–58
Asafev, B. V., Russian Music from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, trans. by Alfred J. Swan (Michigan: J. W. Edwards, 1953)
Brayley, Hodgetts E. A., The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh: Elibron, 2000)
Campbell, Stuart, Russians on Russian Music 1830–1880: An Anthology (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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Frolova-Walker, Marina, Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007)
Khannanov, Ildar Damirovich, Russian Methodology of Musical Form and Analysis (Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of California Santa Barbara, December 2003)
Maes, Francis, A History of Russian Music — From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar, trans. by Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans (California: California Press, 2002)
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Bibliography (Tchaikovsky):
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