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Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945. Russia's gift to the world - Image 22. 1915. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. August 15, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1430/show/1397.

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Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945. (1915). Russia's gift to the world - Image 22. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1430/show/1397

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Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945, Russia's gift to the world - Image 22, 1915, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed August 15, 2020, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1430/show/1397.

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Title	Russia's gift to the world
Creator (LCNAF)	Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945
Publisher	Hodder and Stoughton
Place of Creation (TGN)	New York London
Date	1915
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Russia
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	48 pages; 22 cm.
Original Item Location	DK32.7.M3 1915
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304497~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 22
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_1315132_021.jpg
Transcript	20 Russia's Gift to the World and exuberant vitality. In his Pskovityanka, known in England under the name of Ivan the Terrible, and his Golden Cock, based on a prose tale of Pushkin's, he gave new life to the national art over a wide range of pathos and humour, profound tragedy and brilliant fancy. In all these three musicians what is remarkable is their intense nationality, their wide humanity, and their clear, direct vision. Through their work Russian music has definitely taken a place in the great art of the world. These names, and those of other distinguished contemporaries, represent, so far, the golden age of Russian music. But that age is being continued in the generation of living musicians, among whom may be mentioned the names of Rakhmaninov, Glazunov, Stravinsky, and Skryabin. They are continuing to produce music of a type less intimately national, but of great beauty and value. As in literature, however, the age of the giants has been succeeded for a time by a period of temporary reaction, and a certain sense of fatigue. The multiplication through Russia of schools of music and of orchestras has, like the diffusion of education, its own dangers. But in both arts there is the consciousness of great things actually achieved; there is wide study and appreciation of the masters ; and there is the full realisation of both literature and music as functions of national life, art by the people and for the people. These facts give much promise and high hopes for the future. No modern music is so powerful as the Russian in its appeal to elementary human instincts, so large and direct, so popular in the best sense of that word. Knowledge of it is now steadily increasing in the west. Selected compositions and songs by Russian composers are widely accessible, and they are helping in England very greatly towards the spread of really good and vital music. r m