№ 3 (97) 2022

Natalia Plotnikova (Moscow). Blagodarstvennye sluzhby v chest’ voennykh pobed Petra Pervogo: iz naslediya gosugarevykh pevchikh d’yakov. “Bregi angutskiya, propovedite dela Bozhiya” / Thanksgiving Services in Honour of the Military Victories of Peter the Great: from the Heritage of the Sovereign’s Singing Clerks (d’yaki). “Coasts of Gangut, preach the deeds of God!” (pp. 1–7)

The article introduces into scholarly use the Thanksgiving service dedicated to the naval victories of the Russian fleet at Gangut (July 27, 1714) and Grengam (July 27, 1720). The author, having studied the manuscripts of chants from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, attributes the previously unknown texts of the Service to Chief Hieromonk Buzhinsky. The analysis of the musical style reveals the peculiarity of the harmony and voice leading of four-part Sticheras, the author of which has not yet been identified. The Musical Appendix contains the first publications of the second Stichera from this cycle.

Keywords: The Great Northern War; The Battle of Gangut; The Battle of Grengam; The Sovereign’s singing clerks; Thanksgiving service; stichera.

Alexandra Safonova (Moscow). “Pokhischennaya krest’anka ili Sonnyj poroshok” v teatre S. S. Apraksina / “La villanella rapita” on the stage of Stepan Apraksin's theatre (pp. 8–18)

The proposed article tells about the best private theater in Moscow in early of the 19th century, which belonged to General Stepan S. Apraksin. The partially preserved handwritten music archive in the collections of the Russian State Library allows us to describe some versions of popular European operas, specially made by this theater. An interesting example is "La Villanella rapita”, which is listed in the Catalogue of Russian State Library as an opera by P. A. Guglielmi. However, a comparative analysis with different versions of this work and materials from other popular operas of the last quarter of the 18th century shows that this is a pasticcio with music of such famous composers as F. Bianchi, P. A. Giglielmi, W. A. Mozart, D. Cimarosa, G. Paisiello etc.

Keywords: Apraksin’s Theatre; opera buffa; French opéra-comique; pasticcio; “La villanella rapita”; F. Bianchi; P. Guglielmi; W. A. Mozart; D. Cimarosa; G. Paisiello.

Mikhail Saponov (Moscow). Mikelandzhelo Mladshyj i premiera “Evridiki” / Michelangelo the Younger and “Euridice” premiere performance (pp. 19–27)

Here is the first Russian translation (with comments) of a fragment from Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger’s (1568–1646) Descrizione delle felicissime nozze... (Firenze, 1600), i. e. his interpretation of the performance of Euridice, one of the first “early operas”. In this regard, problems of reception of the new genre by its contemporaries and early forms of recitative are posed, as well as the birth of opera from madrigal “laboratories”.

Keywords: Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger; Jacopo Peri; Giulio Caccini; early opera; early recitative; solo madrigal.

The Musical Appendix (pp. 28–31)

Annotations and Keywords (p. 32)