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Five Operas and a Symphony - Gasparov, Boris - Yale University Press
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Sep 12, 2005
304 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
88 musical illus.
ISBN: 9780300106503
ISBN-10: 0300106505
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Cloth: $52.00 tx
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- History
Literary Studies
Performing Arts
- Series Information
- Russian Literature and Thought Series
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Five Operas and a SymphonyWord and Music in Russian Culture
Winner of the 2006 Deems Taylor Award sponsored by the American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers Named the 2005 Best Book of Slavic Literary/Cultural Criticism by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
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 Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla (1842), Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (1871) and Khovanshchina (1881), Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (1878) and The Queen of Spades (1890), and Shostakovich’s 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.
Boris Gasporov is professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at Columbia University.
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