Kutchka

The Five, also called The Russian Five or The Mighty Five, Russian Moguchaya Kuchka (“The Mighty Little Heap”), group of five Russian composers - César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of ...

Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov composed in their spare time, and all five of them were young men in 1862, with Rimsky-Korsakov at just 18 the youngest and Borodin the oldest at 28. All five were essentially self-taught and eschewed conservative and "routine" musical techniques.

Comprised of César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimksy-Korsakov, this group of inspired musicians, steeped in Russian society, worked to remove outside cultural influences and create a uniquely Russian sound in their compositions.

Their distinctive name was not self-adopted but came from a sentence in critic Vladimir Stasov's review of a concert in Moscow on 24 May 1867, in which music by four of the composers was featured: 'May God grant that [the audience retains] for ever a memory of how much poetry, feeling, talent and ability is possessed ...

A dominant seventh chord, or major-minor seventh chord is a chord composed of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh. It can be also viewed as a major triad with an additional minor seventh. It is denoted using popular music symbols by adding a superscript "7" after the letter designating the chord root.

The basic element of 5-6 technique is that it shifts a major chord to its relative minor chord: C major to A minor in this case. This technique can be used, for example, to break up parallel fifths, to destabilize the major chord, or to modulate.

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka Considered by many subsequent Russian composers as the father of modern Russian music, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (June 1, 1804 - February 15, 1857) was something of an unlikely hero. An aristocrat and a dilettante, he became a determined reformer of Russian music through his passion for Italian and French culture.

Classical music is one of the most highly-revered arts in Russia. Russian classical music has a distinctive history, separate from Western Europe and at the same time highly influenced by Western countries. Some of the most internationally-renowned composers came St. Petersburg and Moscow as well as from smaller towns.

Some characteristics of the group's music are:

• Tonal mutability. They also succeeded at artfully preserving “Tonal mutability,” a distinctive aspect of Russian folk.
• Heterophony.
• Parallel thirds, fourths, and fifths.
• Whole tone scale.
• The Russian submediant.
• “Octatonic” or diminished scale.
• Modular rotation.
• Pentatonic scale.

Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin today are referred to as “The Russian Five”. Actually, they never called themselves that. Their critics and nay-sayers named them “The Mighty Handful” as a joke or a derogatory term.

Mighty Bunch), also known as the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinct national style of classical music: Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin.

Russian national music was developed in the late nineteenth century by a group of composers called the Mighty Handful. This group consisted of five composers named Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Cuí.