Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia

(Indiana University Press) A study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia, this book spans the period from the installation of Patriarch Iov in 1589 to the beginning of Peter the Great’s reign in 1694. Jensen describes the celebratory musical performances presented before Russian’s first patriarch, which served as displays of Russian piety and power. Exploring music’s various roles in 17th-century Muscovite society, the author ultimately demonstrates how people used music for both spiritual enlightenment and entertainment. Claudia Jensen has published articles on Russian music in The Musical Quarterly and Journal of the American Musicological Society. She is co-editor (with Milos Velimirovic) of Nikolai Findeizen’s History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800.