KOTSIPIN'SKII, Anton.

Pis'ni, dumki i shumki rus'kogo naroda na Podoli, Ukraini i v Malorosii spisani i perelozheni pid muziku Ant. Kotsipin'skim. Persha sotnia [Songs of the Russian people in Poland, Ukraine and Little Russia (Hetmanate Ukraine) written and set down to music by Anton Kotsipinsky. First hundred.]

Kiev and Kaminets-Pod[olsk], A. Kotsipinsky, [1862]. [Bound with:] BERNARD, Matvei Ivanovich. [Pesni russkago naroda. Sobrannyia i arranzhirovannyia dlia odnogo golosa s akkompanementom fortepiano M. Bernardom [Songs of the Russian people. Collected and arranged for one voice with piano accompaniment by M. Bernard]. St Petersburg, P. Iurgenson, 1866].2 works in one volume, folio, pp. [4], 138, in ten parts, with words in Ukrainian and in Polish transliterations, and a piano accompaniment, apparently issued without divisional title-pages; [4], 157, [1], lacking title-page, with words in Russian and a piano accompaniment; very good copies in nineteenth-century French quarter green morocco, worn, spine skilfully repaired. First editions of two mid nineteenth-century collections of Slavonic folksongs. In 1861-2, the composer and publisher Kotsipinsky issued a collection of folksongs for unaccompanied voice from Ukrainian and Polish sources; the collection of a hundred songs (including many styled 'dumki' and 'shumki'), which was successful enough to receive editions later in the century, was also issued in the present version, with a score for piano accompaniment, largely of his own composition. For each song he provides details of the region of origin and variants in rhythm and setting. Though evidently intended as the first of a more exhaustive compendium, these 'First Hundred' songs were all that Kotsipinsky published. Not in COPAC or OCLC, which shows five copies of the version for unaccompanied voice (with divisional titles and the Polish transcription on facing pages, rather than underneath the Ukrainian); not at the Russian State Library, though there is a copy at Harvard.Bernard's collection followed four years after that of Kotsipinsky; perhaps not aware of the Ukrainian's work, he compares his volumes to those of Prach and Kashin, his most famous and influential predecessors, whose volumes were 'not strictly designed for singing as in them the piano follows the voice exactly, whereas in my Collection the piano serves only as an accompaniment to the singing.' Bernard (1794-1871) studied as a pianist under John Field in Moscow, but gave up a successful performing career in 1816 to take charge of the serf orchestra which played at the feasts of the extraordinary Count Potocki, before returning to St Petersburg as a piano teacher. 'As a composer, Bernard is known primarily for his songs ... However, his chief contribution to Russian music was in publishing' (New Grove). He started an influential periodical Nouvelliste, introduced Lizst to a Russian audience and championed the early work of Glinka. OCLC shows copies at Illinois and Wisconsin only, though there is also one from the Diaghilev/Lifar Collection at the Library of Congress.

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