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currentmusicology-5089	DeVoto, Mark	Boris’s Bells, By Way of Schubert and Others	2007	22	.pdf	application/pdf	5913	327	68	Stravinsky's appraisal of Glinka is perhaps more realistic: His music is minor, of course, but he is not; all music in Russia stems from him (Stravinsky and Craft 1959:48).Ruslan, with no actual bells in the score, gives us the earliest Russian example of bell chords thus far identified, and these are, naturally enough, at a dramatic high point in the poorly conceived libretto of a long and sprawling stage spectacle: the magic moment where Lyudmila, in the midst of a wedding revelry, is abruptly spirited away by the evil magician Chernomor. To wind up this necessarily limited tour of bell chords, we may begin with two examples of simple irregular resolution, by one of the most romantic and visionary harmonists of all.	cache/currentmusicology-5089.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5089.txt