A scarce and specialized Soviet-era work of ethnomusicology.
In Музыка монгольского эпоса и песен (“Music of Mongolian Epic and Song”) author С.А. Кондратьев (Sergei Alexandrovich Kondratiev) author examines the musical structures underlying traditional Mongolian epic performance and song. Drawing on field experience including his participation in the 1923-26 Tibeto-Mongolian Expedition led by Pyotr Kozlov, Kondratiev analyzes epic storytelling forms, vocal traditions and associated instrumental practices. Published by Советский композитор (Sovetskii Kompozitor), the principal music publishing house of the USSR’s Union of Soviet Composers.
- Year: 1970
- brown cloth over boards
- no jacket, uncertain whether as issued or as found
- slight bowing to boards
- binding sound
- pages clean
- 246 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of black-and-white plates
- 6.5" wide × 8.75" tall × 0.75" thick
- OCLC: 21122881
This Russian-language volume represents a focused scholarly contribution to Central Asian music studies. Scarce in the trade.