Five operas and a symphony: word and music in Russian culture
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Main Author: Gasparov, B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press c2005
Series:Russian literature and thought
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-254) and index
Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style -- Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia -- Eugene Onegin in the age of realism -- Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style (Wagner and Musorgsky) -- Lost in a symbolist city : multiple chronotypes in Chaikovsky's The queen of spades -- A testimony : Shostakovich's Fourth symphony and the end of Romantic narrative -- "Popolo di Pekino" : Musorgsky's Muscovy in early twentieth-century Europe -- "Prima la musica, poi le parole" : musical genealogy of a national anthem
Gasparov discusses six major works in Russian music of the 19th and 20th centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources and within the ideological and cultural contexts of their times
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 268 p.)
ISBN:0300133162
9780300133165

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