In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources within the ideological and cultural contexts of their times. Each musical work becomes a tableau representing a moment in Russian history, and together the works form a coherent story of ideological and aesthetic trends as they evolved in Russia from the time of Pushkin to the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s.Gasparov discusses Glinkas Ruslan and Ludmilla (1842), Mussorgskys Boris Godunov (1871) and Khovanshchina (1881), Tchaikovskys Eugene Onegin (1878) and The Queen of Spades (1890), and Shostakovichs Fourth Symphony (1934). Offering new interpretations to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these important works, Gasparov also demonstrates how Russian music and cultural history illuminate one another.
Titel
Five Operas and a Symphony
Untertitel
Word and Music in Russian Culture
Autor
EAN
9780300133165
ISBN
978-0-300-13316-5
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
01.10.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Anzahl Seiten
304
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch
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