Music Index for the Cyber-USSR

first posted 981101
minor update 2009/0117

MIDI renditions by Comrade P.K. Volkov of VOkSovProlKompMuz.

Ob"yasnenie latinskoj azbuki vospolzuemoj zdes'
Explanation of Russian transcription used here

Note: If you pick "play only," it will continue to play as you flip back to the page you came from (unless that page has its own music). "Words and musical score," however, means a complete page display.

composer	title	Title in English	Play only	See words and musical score
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A.V. Aleksandrov	Zhit' Stalo Luchshe	Living Has Gotten Better	mus/zhit.mid	sg-zhit'.html
M. Blanter	Pesnya o Staline Dlya nas otkryty solnechnye dali	Song About Stalin Sunny prospects open before us	mus/st-bla.mid more solemn mus/st-bla-voc.mid quicker; accompaniment less prominent	sg-st-bla.html
L. Revuckij	Pesnya o Staline	Song About Stalin	mus/st-revu.mid	sg-st-revu.html
Vano Muradeli	Marsh Dzerzhincev	March of the Dzerzhinskians (CheKa)	mus/dzerzh.mid	sg-dzer.html
[unknown]	Besprizornik	The Homeless Orphan [begging song]	mus/besp-1p.mid unaccompanied clarinet mus/besp-2p.mid: piano, with piano accompaniment	sg-besp.html
?	My -- Kuznecy	We Are Blacksmiths (of revolution)	mus/kuznecy.mid	sg-kuzn.html

Works in Progress
(music and scores to be posted later)

music: ? words: Akaki Tsereteli	Suliko	Suliko (a Georgian woman's name)	sg-suliko.html [words only]
Comrade Tim Bender [nasrouddine@hotmail.com] of the Tallahassee A.O. called our attention to a global MIDI song collection with a large Russian and Soviet archive at http://www.ingeb.org/catru.html It includes two renditions of "Suliko."
music: A.V. Aleksandrov words: S. Alymov	Pesnya o Pionere-Geroe	Song about a Hero Pioneer (Pavlik Morozov)	sg-pavlik.html [words only]
music: L. Polovinkin words: I Dobrovol'sky	Spasibo!	Thank you! (Comrade Stalin, for our wonderful childhood)	sg-spasibo.html [words only]
music: M. Krasev words: L. Kvitko	Pis'mo Voroshilovu	A Letter to Voroshilov	sg-voroshilovu.html [words only]
music: M. Blanter words: A. Surkov	Pesnya o Staline	Song About Stalin	sg-st-sur38.html [words only]
music: F. Sabo words: M. Inyushkin	Pesnya o Staline	Song About Stalin	sg-st-sabo.html [words only]

Words only
(music unknown, or widely available elsewhere)

music: A.V. Aleksandrov words: S.V. Mixalkov	Gimn Sovetskogo Soyuza	Hymn of the Soviet Union original 1943 text refers to the Great Leader and Teacher		sg-gimn.html [music available elsewhere]
Vas. Lebedev-Kumach	Pesnya Bojcov NKVD	Song of the NKVD fighting-men		sg-nkvd.html [music unknown]

Internet Chinese Music Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/
A large selection from our Chinese comrades. Don't miss, under the "Modern Music" heading, "Music from after the Liberation" and "The Cultural Revolution Period."

http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/html/mp3.html#Soviet

Kejda takes a skeptical look at Enver Hoxha's adaptation of traditional Albanian music styles:
http://www.kejda.net/?s=Enver+Hoxha
Don't miss, most of the way down, the clip of "Enver Hoxha Tungjatjeta" ("Long Live Enver Hoxha"), a favorite Party anthem.

"Leader in Lieder" [German], a global MIDI song collection with a large Russian and Soviet archive at
http://www.ingeb.org/catru.html

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