Russian music emerged in the 19th century, along with literature, and quickly took a leading role in world culture. This class will examine the developments in Russian society that made this flowering of culture possible, and consider the ways in which the music can be heard as distinctively Russian. We will listen to and discuss music by the composers Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Musorgsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
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