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MUSIC OF RUSSIAN.
Russian music is one of the forms of traditional cultural expression of the peoples that have populated the country. Therefore, it includes both traditional Russian folk music astheir own ethnic minorities who have inhabited the Russian Federation and its predecessor states: medieval Russian principalities, in the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia.
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Among themusical traditions of medieval Russian principalities highlighted the Republic of Novgorod, a state located around the city of Veliky Novgorod ("Novgorod the Great") this controlled trade in the areafor much of the late Middle Ages , one of the few states that resisted the Mongol invasion of Russia. In their cultural tradition is recurrent figure of the epic hero Sadko, 1 a merchant, adventurerand musician who was a blackmailer and peresozo vague, which was always accompanied by his gusli, a bowed string instrument. This type of instrument was common in medieval Russia, highlighting theaforementioned gusli and gadulka. Also used flutes (svirel), tambourines (Buben) and other percussion instruments like treshchotka. However tune the weight of the carrying the human voice. Some ofthese ballads have come down to us through oral tradition.

By the fourteenth century begins to emerge the principality of Moscow, who would conquer the republic of Novgorod in 1478. At this time,there were two variants of Russian music: one of the sacred music of the Russian Orthodox Church and another of secular music, which had a playful purpose. The first drink of the Byzantine musicaltradition, with elements like the music of bells and choral music and was collected in neumes. The second, used whistles and string instruments and was played at parties by skomorokhi, equivalent toHarlequin in the Slavic countries. During the reform of Nikon and the schism of the Old Believers, the skomorokhi were banned on multiple occasions, despite which their traditions sobrevivieron.2

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