Music, Dance, and Literature

Internal Pages

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

External Pages

• [and Dance] - articles from the SIG newsletter, Slovo.
• The History of Russian Vocal Music by Yelizaveta Medvedeva. Includes a class handout
• [Skomorokhi] by Yelizaveta Medvedeva. The skomorokhi were the Russian version of the medieval traveling minstrel.
• [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.
• [Bard Home Page]: Information about the music, folk and church literature, and the iconography of the Orthodox Church, with a focus on Russia. - BROKEN
• [Znamenny Chant]: used by the Russian Orthodox Church until the late seventeenth century
• [Choral Music Source]
• [Hymns] - BROKEN
• [Heritage of Eastern Europe] - BROKEN