Tatar Music of the Early Soviet Period Recordings (1923-1931)

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Idris M. Gaziev

Abstract

The article based on the identified catalogues and gramophone records first considers audio documents of Tatar music of the early Soviet period, covering the time frames since 1923 up 1931 and analyzes gramophone recordings of performers, musicians, creative collectives of this period, their repertoire. The novelty of the work is due to the involvement of archival documents, catalogues of records, which are introduced by the author into scientific circulation for the first time. The very first recordings of the Tatar folk songs “Sham-Sharif” and “Aul-Kui” performed by A. Izmailova are of historical value. The audio materials of the First Moscow Choir conducted by A.F. Golovinsky with original interpretations of the Tatar folk songs “Raspberry” and “Takmak” present particular interest. In the process of auditory analysis of a gramophone record with the song “New Dense Forest”, the name of the true performer, S. Sadykova, was revealed for the first time.


The author also found the information about the first large-scale sound recording of Tatar and Bashkir workers of musical culture in Moscow in 1930: composers S. Saydashev and S. Gabyashi, performers S. Aidarov, G. Almukhametov, G. Kaibitskaya. The author also found information about the first large-scale sound recording in 1930 in Moscow of Tatar and Bashkir figures of musical culture: composers S. Saydashev and S. Gabyashi, performers S. Aidarov, G. Almukhametov, G. Kaibitskaya.


The revealed audio materials expand the range of studying the development of Tatar music in the first half of the XX century recording.


Keywords: recording of Tatar music, gramophone record, “Muz-trеut”, Tatar performers, Tatar song, S. Sadykova, A. Izmailova

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Gaziev И. М. (2022). Tatar Music of the Early Soviet Period Recordings (1923-1931). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 47(2), 147–156. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1366
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Musical Cultures of Russia
Author Biography

Idris M. Gaziev, Ufa State Institute of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov, Ufa, Russia

PhD, Professor at the Department of Vocal Art of the Ufa State Zagir Ismagilov Institute of Arts