Russian and Soviet Music - Russian and Soviet Music

Japanese: ロシア･ソビエト音楽 - ロシアソビエトおんがく

This article provides an overview of music from the pre-revolutionary era of the Russian Empire to the Soviet Union. However, the former Soviet Union was home to such a diverse population that it is said to have more than 130 different languages, making it extremely difficult to understand its musical culture as a whole. The focus will be on music from the Russian Federation, which accounts for more than half of the total population, but from the Black Sea coast in the south to the Caspian coast and further east to Central Asia, the region was strongly influenced by the cultural sphere of West Asia, and an advanced court musical culture flourished there, while in the Baltic Sea coast in the northwest, German rule over the Baltic tribes continued, and the region has been in contact with European musical culture since the Middle Ages.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

革命前のロシア帝国の時代からソ連邦に至るまでの音楽について概観する。しかし旧ソ連邦には，130以上の異なる言語があるといわれるほど多様な民族が住んでおり，その音楽文化を全体として統一的にとらえることには大きな困難が伴う。全人口の半分以上を占めるロシア連邦共和国の音楽が中心となるが，南の黒海沿岸からカスピ海岸，さらにその東の中央アジアへかけては，西アジアの文化圏の影響を強く受けていて，高度な宮廷音楽文化が栄えてきたし，北西のバルト海沿岸地方では，バルト系の諸族に対するドイツ人の支配が続いたので，中世以来ヨーロッパの音楽文化に接してきた。

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