History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 1 : From Antiquity to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century

This work is a complete translation of Nikolai Findeizen's Ocherki po istorii muzyki v Rossii, a pathbreaking two-volume opus which, in its scope and command of primary sources, and in its curiosity and generosity of scholarly inquiry, has remained a cornerstone for all subsequent studies of Russian music. Researched and written over a forty-year period dating back to tsarist times, Findeizen's Ocherki was published in 1928 and 1929 by the Soviet State Publishing House, close to the time of its author's death. Approaching the study of the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russian cultural and social history, Findeizen took as his major theme the divergence between the music of folk and public life and music connected with the court.