Russian Music and Dance

Internal Pages

• Nicolaa's article on Literature and Entertainment in Kievan Rus'
• Information on the SCA Russian dances Khorobushka and Moonshine

External Pages

• Music and Dance - articles from the SIG newsletter, Slovo.
• The History of Russian Vocal Music by Yelizaveta Medvedeva. Includes a class handout
• The Skomorokhi by Yelizaveta Medvedeva. The skomorokhi were the Russian version of the medieval traveling minstrel.
• The Cherubic Hymn by Yelizaveta Medvedeva. Documentation on a presentation of religious chanting ("znamenny"), the only accurately recorded Russian music of the middle ages and Renaissance.
• Orthodox Bard Home Page: Information about the music, folk and church literature, and the iconography of the Orthodox Church, with a focus on Russia. - BROKEN
• Russian Znamenny Chant: used by the Russian Orthodox Church until the late seventeenth century
• Russian Choral Music Source
• Slavonic Hymns - BROKEN
• Musical Heritage of Eastern Europe - BROKEN