The Bell Imagination in Rachmaninoff's Music A Memorial for the 150th Anniversary of Rachmaninoff's Birth
The fascination of the bell sound in Sergei Rachmaninoff's music is much stronger than the other Russian composers in 19th century.This phenomenon not only influenced by his grand-mother who as an authoritative connoisseur of bell music during his childhood and adolescence,but also his profound listening experience of the church bells and the deep love of motherland.The Bell Imagination in Rachmaninoff's music has been widely noticed and recognized by Russian scholars.The main purpose of this article is not to provide a comprehensive technical analysis of the Bell Imagination in his music,but to suggest that performers and researchers to pay attention on this sig-nificant imaginative feature which either explicit or indirect in the score in their teaching,perfor-mance practice and research.
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