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All-Night Vigil; Music Theory; Mutability; Rachmaninoff; Schenkerian analysis; Vespers
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The Problem Of Tonal Disunity In Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Op. 37, Olga Ellen Bakulina
The Problem Of Tonal Disunity In Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Op. 37, Olga Ellen Bakulina
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Recent English-language scholarship has given considerable attention to the issue of tonal disunity, particularly the concepts of tonal pairing, directional tonality, and double-tonic complex. Relatively little attention, however, has been given to Russian music, specifically liturgical repertoires, where tonal centricity has historically been weaker than in most tonal music. This dissertation investigates tonal disunity in Russian sacred works, with special emphasis on Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil (1915). This work, though in many ways tonal, relies largely on the structural principles of Russian sacred repertoire, a reliance that is especially evident in movements that challenge traditional Western norms of monotonality.
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