*Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies : Russian Music

This volume gathers thirty six essays on Russian composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between.

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.

This book describes the development of jazz in the Soviet Union where this genre was periodically denounced as decadent by the Communist Party and then alternately embraced as a great proletarian art form.