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Ilya Alexandrovich Musin: pedagogue, conductor, and author.
Full text linkThesis (D.M.A.)--Boston UniversityFor sixty-seven years, beginning in 1932 and ending with his death in 1999, llya
Alexandrovich Musin trained orchestral conductors at the Leningrad (later St. Petersburg)
Conservatory in the techniques which have since come to be known as the Leningrad
School of Orchestral Conducting. Due to matters both political and ethnic in nature,
Musin failed in securing a podium of his own. As a result, he turned to the classroom,
educating generations of conductors in a method of non-verbal communication which
finds its roots in the commonplace gestures of everyday life. Musin committed his entire
life to these methods, which he not only taught, but also included in his writings, four
volumes of which have been published to date.
Over the course of his lengthy career, Musin is thought to have taught over onehundred-
sixty conductors, roughly ninety of which would go on to become professional
conductors and teachers of conducting. From Musin's studio have come conductors
whose careers are visible and important, including Yuri Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev,
Semyon Bychkov, Martyn Brabbins, Sian Edwards, Oleg Proskurnya, Leonid Korchmar,
and Alexander Polishchuk, to name a few.
The purpose of this study is to document the musical and educational beliefs,
activities, and theories of Russian conducting pedagogue llya Alexandrovich Musin, to
examine his roles as pedagogue, conductor, and author, to apply his ideas to the
preparation of teacher/conductors and to provide possible solutions for solving problems
within the current system of conductor/teacher preparation. The importance of this study
lies in its potential for use in the field of music education, particularly for conductor
education and music teacher education. It is expected that this research will be valuable
to the academic community in tracing the pedagogical style and methods of an educator
whose career was both long and fruitful, and whose methods may be effective in solving
issues in the arena of teacher/conductor preparation
Ivan Musin-Pushkin, Boyar and Count: His Notebook and New Sources
Full text linkThe article was submitted on 05.05.2019.The name of Ivan Alekseevich Musin-Pushkin, the only senator who outlived Peter I, is very well known: it is most frequently mentioned in connection with his management of the Monastery Prikaz and publishing in the country’s two capitals. Additionally, there is an unusual myth that he was an illegitimate son of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich. The existing historiography focuses on his kinship with Patriarch Joachim. Because of this, the reasons why a stolnik born into a family with no noble rank climbed the career ladder until he became a boyar, count, and senator were perceived one-sidedly. Attention to Musin- Pushkin’s tenure as governor of Astrakhan makes the author question the priority of kinship and blood relationships when climbing the social ladder. The author refutes the legend about the count’s kinship with the tsar, which was created by 19th-century journalists. Musin-Pushkin’s marriage to Joachim’s niece was concluded a month before the death of the patriarch and could not considerably influence the promotion of Musin-Pushkin. The article is supplemented by archival documents and the count’s letters, which help understand the communication channels of the St Petersburg dignitary and his circle of relations. The author also provides five previously unpublished documents from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts and the count’s testament. The article also contains a highly unique source, Musin-Pushkin’s Notebook of Correspondence for the first half of 1715, which mentions the journeys undertaken by the tsar and the count between May and June 1715.Имя единственного пережившего Петра I бессменного сенатора первого состава Ивана Алексеевича Мусина-Пушкина хорошо известно и чаще упоминается по поводу его заведования Монастырским приказом и издательским делом в столицах. Необычен миф о его происхождении как незаконнорожденного сына царя Алексея Михайловича. В историографии делается акцент на его родственную связь с патриархом Иоакимом. Поэтому ранее односторонне воспринимались причины, по которым рядовой стольник из незнатной фамилии поднялся по чиновной лестнице до боярства, получил титул графа и должность сенатора. Внимание к деятельности Мусина-Пушкина во время пребывания на посту воеводы в Астрахани ставит под вопрос представления о приоритете свойства и родства для повышения социального статуса. В статье аргументируется опровержение легенды о «царском родстве» будущего графа, созданной публицистами XIX в. Брак Мусина-Пушкина с племянницей патриарха Иоакима состоялся за месяц до смерти святейшего и не мог значительно повлиять на продвижение к высшим служебным и чиновным ступеням. Публикуемые в приложении архивные документы и письма графа помогают понять каналы коммуникации видного петровского сподвижника, круг его родственников. Впервые публикуются пять документов из коллекции РГАДА и завещание (духовная) графа. Один из самых уникальных источников – «Записная тетрадь переписки» И. А. Мусина-Пушкина за первую половину 1715 г., в которой упомянуты перемещения царя и графа за май-июнь 1715 г
Semidefinite programming bounds for few-distance sets in the Hamming and Johnson spaces
No full textWe study the maximum cardinality problem of a set of few distances in the
Hamming and Johnson spaces. We formulate semidefinite programs for this problem
and extend the 2011 works by Barg-Musin and Musin-Nozaki. As our main result,
we find new parameters for which the maximum size of two- and three-distance
sets is known exactly.Comment: Renew the whole article to add more results and author
Modernisation of the Russian Civil Code: Initial Steps
Full text linkThe aim of the study is to present initial steps in modernisation of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The author presents the selected aspects of the challanges according to the modernisation of the law system in order to answer some substantial economic and social developments that have occured in Russia and should be reflected in civil law regulation
Music identification using brain responses to initial snippets
No full textNaturalistic music typically contains repetitive musical patterns that are present throughout the song. These patterns form a signature, enabling effortless song recognition. We investigate whether neural responses corresponding to these repetitive patterns also serve as a signature, enabling recognition of later song segments on learning initial segments. We examine EEG encoding of naturalistic musical patterns employing the NMED-T and MUSIN-G datasets. Experiments reveal that (a) training machine learning classifiers on the initial 20s song segment enables accurate prediction of the song from the remaining segments; (b) β and γ band power spectra achieve optimal song classification, and (c) listener-specific EEG responses are observed for the same stimulus, characterizing individual differences in music perception.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Design Aesthetic
Скандинавское язычество на Востоке по данным археологии: общее и особенное [Skandinavskoe jazyčestvo na Vostoke po dannym arxeologii: obščee i osobennoe]
No full textInternational audienceThe present paper deals with changes in Scandinavian paganism in Early Rus’ taken through the evolution of its material culture. The author compares different kinds of amulets found in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The rarity of several categories of Scandinavian amulets in Rus’ should be explained by the character of the presence of the Vikings in Rus’. The differences between archаeological materials and attested changes show us the process of acculturation of the Scandinavian in Eastern Europe and background of the Christianization of Early Rus’
Головажня и воз: к уточнению метрологии в средневековой Восточной Европе»
No full textInternational audienceThe article deals with the reconstruction and explanation of the measures of weights used in medieval East-Central Europe and in Ukraine and Belarus until the Modern Time — golovazhnya and voz. However,in the Muscovite State and Novgorod Land the golovazhnya did not use at the same scale; at least the historical documents do not mention it. The golovazhnya is mentioned by the Ruskaya Pravda and Kievo-PecherskPatericon in the documents and the description of events of the second half — end of the 11th century. On the basis of the analysis of medieval texts and birch bark documents from Novgorod, the weight of the golovazhnya(caput salis, galwage) is calculated as circa 75 gr. The author also argues the identity of berkovets (Berkowitz or Schiffspfund of Germen medieval texts) and voz (cartful or currus), equal to 163,8 kg. The dynamic of prices for slat trade in Middle Ages, especially in Novgorod and Pskov in the 13th–15th centuries, is also evaluated. The author proposes a new interpretation of birch bark document N 219 from medieval Novgorod. This interpretation confirms earlier proposed hypothesis on the relationship between the Rus medieval monetary unit such as grivna, kuna and nogata. The potential of hagiography as a source for the study of medieval material culture is revisite
Réforme et réformateurs dans l’Église russe aux XIe-XIIe siècles : renovare, transformare ou conservare ?
No full textL’article décrit en termes de réforme / contre-réforme le processus de changement institutionnel de l’Église russe contemporaine de l’époque de Lanfranc et peu après. La recherche se concentre sur les modifications du système économique de l’Église et du patronage princier qui se reflètent dans le corpus des chartes des années 1130. Ces documents concernent avant tout les établissements ecclésiastiques de Novgorod et montrent le passage de revenus en nature sous forme de dîme à une véritable économie dans l’Église. La résignation de son siège épiscopal de Novgorod par Jean Pop’ian en 1130 pourrait avoir été le dernier obstacle au nouvel ordre des choses. Ces événements se sont déroulés simultanément à la querelle des investitures en Europe et à la campagne contre le charisticariat à Byzance, formes de dépendance de l’Église à l’égard des laïcs. Le sujet est développé sur fond des particularités de la vie ecclésiastique de Novgorod aux XIe-XIIe siècles qui doivent s’expliquer plutôt selon les normes du droit canon byzantin que par la spécificité des relations de la ville avec les princes. L’enquête souligne le rôle significatif des étrangers dans les réformes au Moyen Âge et le fait que les « réformateurs » ne pensaient qu’en termes de retour à la tradition.In the present article, the author describes institutional change processes in the medieval Russian Church at the time of Lanfranc and a little later in terms of reform and counter-reform. The research focuses on the changes in the Church’s economic system and princely patronage that were reflected in the corpus of documents from the 1130s. These documents relate primarily to the ecclesiastical institutions of Novgorod and illustrate the passage from income in kind in the form of the tithe to a real Church economy. It is suggested that the resignation of the Bishop of Novgorod Jean Pop'ian in 1130 removed the last obstacle to the new order of things. These events took place at the same time as the conflict over investitures in Europe and the campaign against the charisticariat in Byzantium, manifestations of the dependency of the Church on the laity. The study also examines the context of the peculiarities of the Church in Novgorod in the 11th-12th centuries that ought to be explained by the procedures of Byzantine canon law rather than by the specific relationship of the city with its royal rulers. The research highlights the significant role of foreigners in the reforms in the Middle Ages and the fact that the “reformers” were only concerned with a return to tradition
Колокол святого Юра 6849 года: между Львовом, Плоцком, Петербургом и Теребовлей [Kolokol svjatogo Jura 6849 goda : mezdu L’vovom, Plockom, Peterburgom i Terebovlej]
No full textInternational audienceThe present paper analyses the historiographyof researches on the bell of 6849 AM fromthe cathedral of Saint George in Lviv, Ukraine,and estimates the potential of its Cyrillic inscriptionand chemical composition of its copper alloyas historical sources. The author publishesfor the fi rst time the photographs of the bell andthe tracing of its inscription made at the end ofthe 19th century, probably by Isidor Szaraniewicz.All materials were send to the ImperialArcaheological Commission in St Petersburg,Russia, in 1897 via Polish Academy of Arts andSciences in Krakow thank to eff orts of GregoryWorobjow, Russian administrative offi cial inPlock, Kingdom of Poland, and the researcher ofthe Polish history. The author notes the lack ofserious publication on the bell in Russian historiography,where the erroneous opinion that thebell was originally made for the monastery of St.George in Trembowla was established. The nameof the bell “trembowelski” should be explained byits dedication to the Icon of the Mother of Godtransferred to Lviv from Trembowla in 1675 AD.The article indicates the date of the manufacturingof the bell as the second half of 1341 – February1342 AD. This period corresponds well to thenew political situation in the region after reconcilingbetween Lvov and Polish King Casimir IIIthe Great, arri ving of the European merchantsand craftsmen in the city, and active circulationinto the city of Prague groschens that createdeconomic circumstances for the production of thebell. The article also notes that the productionof new bells in the 1340s was very characteristicof the whole of Europe. The author interpretsthe high content of antimony in the metal of thebell (6%) by the insuffi cient level of the master’squalifi cations, as well as by the initial stage ofthe imports of copper from the mines of Hungary,the Harz and the Eastern Alps. In conclusion,historiographical examples are analyzed,in which the interpretations of historians do notcorrespond to the informative possibility of theinscription on the bell as a historical source. Theauthor confi rms that the bell was made by a Europeanmaster, while Yakov Skora was only a calligrapher,and gives the proof that the inscriptionitself can not be used as evidence of the constructionof a new cathedral of St. George in 1341 AD
Европейская геральдика в материалах раскопок средневекового Новгорода: к истории связей Новгорода и Ганзы [Evropejskaja geral’dika v materialax raskopok srednevekovogo Novgoroda: k istorii svjazej Novgoroda i Ganzy]
No full textInternational audienceThe paper is devoted to the analysis of the objects of West European origin decorated with armorial bearings, found in the excavations of medieval Novgorod and dated tothe late XIII and XIV centuries. The objects in question represent shield-like plates with images of “nettle”, lions and eagles, as well as objects of everyday use with liliesand lions. The analysis of these things in connection with the other finds of European origin contributes to clarifying our notions of the relations between Novgorod andEurope. The author puts forward a hypothesis about the trade competition between the Hanza Union and the Schauenburg count family from Holstein. In Novgorod theEuropean things were mainly used by active middle class people, but not the patriciate. The acquaintance of Novgorod with the European heraldic symbols was not an isolatedphenomenon; it took place against the background of growing penetration of new cultural elements from West to East Europ
