Russian Historic Opera of the First Half of the 19th Century: to the Question of Formation of a Genre

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Yelena V. Smagina

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the history of formation and the poetics
of the genre of Russian historical opera of the first half of the 19th century.
For a new aspect of study of this genre, the author suggests the idea of
reading of artistic texts of the opera in the context of spiritual paradigm
of the epoch on the example of Askold’s Grave by Verstovsky and Life
for the Tsar by Glinka.

Keywords: history of music, Russian historic opera, poetics of opera

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Smagina, Y. V. (2009). Russian Historic Opera of the First Half of the 19th Century: to the Question of Formation of a Genre. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 5(2), 154–159. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/662
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Musical Style and Genre
Author Biography

Yelena V. Smagina, Volgograd Institute of Arts named after P. A. Serebrjakov

Candidate of Arts, Professor at the Department
of History and Theory of Music, Assistant Dean of Research

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