1. Slavic Harmony and Disharmony

2. A Czech Abroad Bedřich Smetana (1824–84) – first important nationalist composer of Czech lands – 1856: emigrated to Göteborg, Sweden – influence and contact with Liszt Symphonic poems – Richard III (1858) – Walensteins Lager (1859) – Macbeth (1859)

3. Bedřich Smetana Return to Prague in 1862 Braniboři v Čechách (The Brandenburgers in Bohemia, 1862–63) Má vlast (1872–1879) Českost (“Czechness”)

4. Má vlast (My Fatherland) Cycle of six symphonic poems [Anthology 2- 55] – Vyšehrad (The Castle on High, 1872–74) – Vltava (The Vltava River, 1874) – Šárka (1875) – From Bohemian Fields and Groves (1875) – Tábor (1878) – Blaík (1879)

5. The Fate of a Tune: From Folk Song to Anthem Vltava – main theme based on Swedish folk tune – tune has been readapted for other uses

6. Competing Reputations at Home and Abroad Libuše and Má vlast – honored at home The Bartered Bride (1866) – popular abroad

7. Slavic Disharmony Russian music – group centering around Miliy Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837– 1910) supported progressive aesthetic – Anton Rubinstein (1829–94) represented the purportedly conservative faction

8. Slavic Disharmony Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906) – “the New Russian School” – moguchaya kuchka “Mighty Five” or “Mighty Handful” Balakirev César Cui (1835–1918) Alexander Borodin (1833–87) Modest Musorgsky (1839–81) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)

9. Kuchka Music Balakirev, Overture on Russian Themes (1857– 58) Balakirev, Sbornik russkikh narodnikh pesen (Anthology of Russian Folk Songs) (1866) – 40 arrangements of Russian folk songs – unique harmonizations

10. Modest Mussorgsky’s Realism Mussorgsky – Boris Godunov realism mimesis (“imitation of nature”) set conversational prose

11. Art and Autocracy Russian autocratic state Pushkin’s Boris Godunov (1825) – banned by censors until 1866

12. The Coronation Scene in Boris Godunov [Anthology 2-56] Prologue, choral procession Russian folk song “Solemn peal of bells” Static chord progression

13. Revising Boris Godunov Completed in 1869 Revised version in 1874 Reorchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov in 1896, revised in 1908

14. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Part of the first graduating class of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1866) Ballet – Swan Lake (1875–76) – The Sleeping Beauty (1889) – The Nutcracker (1892)

15. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Opera – Eugene Onegin (1879) [Anthology 2-57] based on a work by Pushkin melodic sixths bïtovoy romans (“household romances”)

16. Russian Symphonies Balakirev circle – Borodin, Second Symphony (1869–76) St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories – Tchaikovsky, 6 symphonies and the Manfred Symphony

17. Russian Symphonies Fourth Symphony [Anthology 2-58] – suite of character pieces – Autobiography in Music?