Transcultural Representation of Circassian Music in Mily Balakirev's Islamey: Oriental Fantasy (1869)

This thesis examines the context in which the Russian composer, M. Balakirev, used folk idioms to create a representation of Circassian musical culture in Islamey: Oriental Fantasy. It was composed for piano in 1869 after Balakirev’s trip to the Caucasus during its colonization by the Russian Empir...

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Main Author: Grankina, Anastassia
Other Authors: Dineen, Phillip Murray
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32328
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4316