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  Reference Encyclopedia - Ethnic Russian music
Ethnic music is especially associated with classical styles of ballet and opera, of which composers like Mikhail Glinka, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky and the members of The Mighty Handful are among the most well-known.
Late in the 19th century, elements of Russian folk music (such as the balalaika) began to be used in orchestras, beginning with a Russian folk instrument orchestra led by Vasily Andreyev.
During the Soviet era, music in the USSR was tightly restricted.
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 Music of Russia Encyclopedia Article @ RussianWealth.com (Russian Wealth)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
During the period of Soviet domination, music was highly scrutinized and kept within certain boundaries of content and innovation.
The Buryats of the far east is known for distinctive folk music which uses the two-stringed horsehead fiddle, or morin khur.
Tatar folk music have rhythmic peculiarities and pentatonic intonation in common with nations of the Volga area, who are ethnically Finno-Ugric and Turkic.
www.russianwealth.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_Russia   (1625 words)

  
 Music Did You Mean music?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody.
The definition of music as sound with particular characteristics is taken as a given by psychoacoustics, and is a common one in musicology and performance.
Music history itself is the (distinct) subfield of musicology and history, which studies the history of music theory.
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 Music of Chechnya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The pondur is the oldest of musical instruments of the Chechens, comprising of three chords and a wooden casing.
Being similar to the Russian balalaika, the difference lies in the casing: the pondur is rather long, is made of one solid block of wood and has a soft, rustling voice.
The first recordings of Chechen music were made by an exiled member of the Decembrist society in the middle of the 19th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Chechnya   (261 words)

  
 Music of the Komi Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Komi Republic - Krasnodar - Mari El - Mordovia - Nenetsia - Ossetia - Rostov - Ethnic Russian - Sakha - Sakhalin - Tatarstan - Tuva - Udmurtia - Ukrainian
 This article about a music genre is a stub.
This page was last modified 13:42, 31 August 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_the_Komi_Republic   (171 words)

  
 Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia Article @ Occurring.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who was born in St. Petersburg, dedicated his Seventh Symphony to the city, calling it the "Leningrad Symphony." He wrote the symphony during the German siege of the city in 1941.
For example, in 1972 mathematics student Boris Grebenshchikov founded the band Aquarium, an underground rock group that grew to huge popularity in the 70s and 80s.
Outstanding is the film Noi Vivi (Italy, 1942; see Noi Vivi at IMDB), based on the novel We the Living by Ayn Rand, a film that comments on Italian politics by way of featuring the October Revolution.
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 Music of Udmurtia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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The largest ethnic group in the area are the Udmurts, who have vibrant folk song traditions.
Musical contests as well as ceremonial and ritual music are an important part of the music of Udmurtia.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_Udmurtia   (198 words)

  
 List of cultural and regional genres of music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
List of cultural and regional genres of music
afoxê - bumba-meu-boi - Capoeira music - choro - repentismo - samba
bongo - calypso music - lavway - leggos - steelpan
arikah.net /encyclopedia/list_of_cultural_and_regional_genres_of_music   (789 words)

  
 Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russian: Нене́цкий автоно́мный о́круг), or Nenetsia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Arkhangelsk Oblast).
The Nenets language has official status along with Russian in the district.
Nenetsia is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Nenetsia   (180 words)

  
 Music of Nenetsia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nenetsia - Ossetia - Rostov - Ethnic Russian - Sakha - Sakhalin - Tatarstan - Tuva - Udmurtia - Ukrainian
Their traditional music includes epic poems comparable to such epics as the Finnish Kalevala and the Yakut Olonkho [1].
Nenets traditional music does not include the use of musical instruments nor dance [2].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Nenetsia   (206 words)

  
 Music of Khakassia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Khakas people are Turkic, and their culture, including music, has some similarities to the culture of Tuva, a neighboring region in Central Asia.
Like Tuva, throat-singing is practiced in Khakassia, often accompanied by a two-stringed instrument called the khomys.
The city of Abakan has hosted the International Khakass Folk Music Competition since 1995.
www.tocatch.info /en/Music_of_Khakassia.htm   (206 words)

  
 Operation Lightfoot [Earth II] - jolt.co.uk public forums
That was about to change now, since the territories of Komi and Nenetsia would be under Cottish control soon, and they needed somewhere to be stationed.
That, combined with the massive natural resources in Komi and Nenetsia and teh fact that Cotland had controlled the areas in the past during the first and second Age of Empire, had sparked the invasion.
Komi and Nenetsia is to fall in under the Cottish Empire and become full Cottish provinces, complete with its currency, trade relations, defense and judicial system.
forums.jolt.co.uk /showthread.php?t=428832   (1289 words)

  
 Russia Music News - Media Monitoring Service by Russia Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
the hardest pushed to present a "new music moment" — the event's remit, in Proms people-speak.
MTV's Spanking New Music Tour: Wolfmother, iForward Russia!, The Maccabees, Fields - Academy 1.
change we fixed immediately was that recorded music was switched on during the breaks to entertain...
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 cartoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
C is a prescient (oceanfront arbitrary good-girl of music).
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 Ethnic Russian Music Encyclopedia Article @ 209.68.55.253 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
a sure technique and, more importantly, an understanding of this decidedly ethnic music.
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 Russia - Travelling to Russia - Holidays in Russia
He shows how, perhaps more than any other country, Russia's sense of identity is embodied in its culture: not only its great poetry, music, books and paintings, but also in its common ideas, customs, habits and beliefs.
Despite Russia's immense size and diversity it is this unique temperament that has held together a people scattered from Europe to Asia and enabled them to survive in the face of their own fearful history
Autonomous districts: Aga Buryatia, Chukotka, Evenkia, Khantia-Mansia, Koryakia, Nenetsia, Permyakia, Taymyria, Ust-Orda Buryatia and Yamalia
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 Amazon.com: Nenetsia: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Nenets_autonomous_okrug info here at en.athletic-coaching-salaries.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Time zone 2 Administrative divisions 3 Demographics 4 See also
Nenets Autonomous Okrug See also See also Music of Nenetsia Administrative divisions of Russia Federal subjects Republics Adygea
Yamalia On January 1, 2007, Evenk and Taymyr Autonomous Okrugs will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
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 Shamanic Book List
"Power Music: Music and Trance in the Shamanic Universe." Paperback.
Translations and paraphrases of actual shamans' own songs, but text only (no music).
A survey of the Finno-Ugric indigenous peoples of northwestern Russia (rather than the Turkic and Mongolian peoples of Siberia), including Karelia, Moksherzia, Mariel, Udmurtia, Komimu, Hanit-Mansia, and Nenetsia, with frequent references to shamans and shamanic practices.
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