Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's use of the byliny (Russian oral epic narratives) in his opera Sadko

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's use of the byliny (Russian oral epic narratives) in his opera Sadko

This thesis analyses the background in folk music, folk literature and folk art of Rimsky-Korsakov's sixth opera Sadko (1897). Attention is especially focused on the folk genre of the bylina, or Russian legendary and mythical oral epic narrative, from the field of which, uniquely in Russian ope...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reeve, Brian
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2005
Subjects:
Opera
Byliny
Epic Poetry
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28574/

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