Essays On Russian And East European Music
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Author | : Gerald Abraham |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2011-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780571276745 |
Among the first of Gerald Abraham's many books were studies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and his knowledge of Russian literature and culture has provided the key to his extensive research into the history of Slavonic music. Music, for Gerald Abraham, was never merely an artefact to be measured and described - he believed it should be considered in its cultural context. It is remarkable how he enlivens our view of the Russian scene without having lived there for a prolonged period. "Essays on Russian and East European Music" brings together eleven essays on Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian music published in various books and journals over a period of twenty years, and a previously unpublished essay on the operas of Moniuszko.
Author | : Anthony Marra |
Publisher | : Hogarth |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0770436447 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art. This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts. In stunning prose, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents.
Author | : Raymond Pearson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | : 9780719017346 |
Author | : Jan Mukařovský |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : European literature |
ISBN | : 9780300015737 |
Author | : British Academy |
Publisher | : Proceedings of the British Aca |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780197262597 |
Volume 111 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 17 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.
Author | : Eugene M. Avrutin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Antisemitism |
ISBN | : 9781936235599 |
This volume collects the papers of the international conference held in April2009 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Author | : Francis Maes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2006-02-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520248252 |
Introduces the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history over the past two decades. Summarizes the new view of Russian music and provides an overview of the relationships between artistic movements and political ideas.
Author | : Daniel Jaffé |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1538130084 |
Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today’s lingua franca both in the concert hall and on the soundtracks of international blockbusters from Hollywood. Meanwhile, the innovations of Modest Musorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky have played their crucial role in the development of Western music, influencing the work of virtually every notable composer of the past century. Historical Dictionary of Russian Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries for each of Russia’s major performing organizations and performance venues, and on specific genres such as ballet, film music, symphony and church music. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Music.
Author | : Lawrence D. Orton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Brown |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2010-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199772924 |
Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside Russia. Brown shows how Musorgsky, though essentially an amateur with no systematic training in composition, emerged in his first opera, Boris Godunov, as a supreme musical dramatist. Indeed, in this opera, and in certain of his piano pieces in Pictures at an Exhibition, Musorgsky produced some of the most startlingly novel music of the whole nineteenth century. He was also one of the most original of all song composers, with a prodigious gift for uncovering the emotional content of a text. As Brown illuminates Musorgsky's work, he also paints a detailed portrait of the composer's life. He describes how, unlike the systematic and disciplined Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky was a fitful composer. When the inspiration was upon him, he could apply himself with superhuman intensity, as he did when composing the initial version of Boris Godunov. Sadly, Musorgsky deteriorated in his final years, suffering periods of inner turmoil, when his alcoholism would be out of control. Finally, unemployed and all but destitute, he died at age forty-two. His failure to complete his two remaining operas, Khovanshchina and Sorochintsy Fair, Brown concludes, is one of music's greatest tragedies. Written by one of the leading authorities on nineteenth-century Russian composers, Musorgsky is the finest available biography of this giant of Russian music.