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Russian Folk Traditions in Contemporary Musical Literature for Winds
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Abstract:
This dissertation performs analyses of and compositions in three musical traditions that have received little attention in the English-speaking literature: Russian vocal folk polyphony (as described by theorist Aleksandr Kastalskiy in the 1920s), Russian village accordion repertoire and Soviet tourist/traveller bard songs. Each musical tradition is taken through five steps. First, a historical overview of the development of each tradition is provided. Second, a sizeable number of representative pieces or examples from each tradition are analyzed with the use of special methodologies tailor-made to show the most prominent apparent organizational principles in the music (including modes and chord progressions, melodic contour, musical form, poetic form and meter). Third, these analyses, performed upon dozens or hundreds of examples, are compared in order to discover the most typical traits of each musical language or dialect. Fourth, a composition is written in each musical tradition explicitly using these most typical traits: "Three Swans" (Russian vocal folk polyphony), "Torontovka" (Russian village accordion repertoire) and "Song To Our Children" (Soviet tourist/traveller bard song). Fifth, the aforementioned three compositions are arranged and expanded to varying degrees in order to allow them to be performed by contemporary Western small chamber wind groups – the brass quintet and the woodwind ensemble – in pedagogical and other contexts.
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Keyword:
Accordion; Arranging; Bayan; Brass; Brass quintet; Chord analysis; Composition; Folk song; Folklore; Garmon; Guitar poetry; Kastalsky; Music; Music education; Music history; Musical form; Pitch constellation; Russian accordion; Russian folk polyphony; Russian folk song; Russian history; Russian music; Soviet bard; Wind band grading system; Woodwind; Woodwind ensemble
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/30111
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