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Musorgsky

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199772924
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky written by David Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Author : Michael Russ
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521386074
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition written by Michael Russ and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov

Author : Caryl Emerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521369763
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov written by Caryl Emerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov.

Musorgsky

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224064
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky written by Richard Taruskin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer. . . . [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century have refashioned Musorgsky from what the evidence suggests he was—an aristocrat with an early clinical interest in true-to-life musical portraiture and a later penchant for drinking partners who were both folklore buffs and political reactionaries democrat."—from the foreword Incorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book for the first time sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context. From this perspective, Richard Taruskin revises fundamentally the composer's historical and artistic image, in particular debunking the century-old dogmas of Vladimir Stasov, Musorgsky's first biographer. Here the author offers the most complete explanation of the revision of the opera Boris Godunov, compares it to contemporaneous operas by Chaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, advances a revisionary characterization of Khovanshchina as an aristocratic tragedy informed by a pessimistic view of history, discusses Musorgsky's use of folklore, and, focusing on Sorochintsi Fair, brings to a climax his refutation of Musorgsky as a protorevolutionary populist. The epilogue is a survey of revisionary productions of Musorgsky's works at home during the Gorbachev era.

Musorgsky

Author : Michel D. Calvocoressi
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner ; New York : E.P. Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky written by Michel D. Calvocoressi and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner ; New York : E.P. Dutton. This book was released on 1919 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Musorgsky

Author : Caryl Emerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485074
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Musorgsky written by Caryl Emerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modest Musorgsky is Russia's greatest musical dramatist. When he died in 1881 in St Petersburg at the age of forty-two, in poverty and relative obscurity, he was known for a single opera, Boris Godunov and a handful of eccentric 'realistic' songs set to prosaic Russian texts. He had no institutional connections, no 'degree', no family of his own, not even a permanent address. Except for Franz Liszt, no composer of stature knew of him outside Russia. Through the loyal (if controversial) intervention of his friends, his works survived in various editings into the early twentieth century, when revivals and evolving musical tastes restored him to new life. This account of his life, first published in 1999, emphasizes the psychological and economic factors that contributed to the composer's remarkable rise and tragic, premature end and is the first brief biography in English to make use of materials published in the new, de-Sovietized Russian academic climate.

Musorgsky and His Circle

Author : Stephen Walsh
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385350481
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky and His Circle written by Stephen Walsh and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of Russian classical music in the nineteenth century in the wake of Mikhail Glinka comprises one of the most remarkable and fascinating stories in all musical history. The five men who came together in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg in the 1860s, all composers of talent, some of genius, would be—in spite of a virtual lack of technical training—responsible for some of the greatest and best-loved music ever written. How this happened is the subject of Stephen Walsh's brilliant composite portrait of the group known in the West as the Five, and in Russia as moguchaya kuchka—the Mighty Little Heap. Friends, competitors, and creative intellectuals whose ambitions and ideas reflect the ferment of their times, Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and—most important of all—Modest Musorgsky, come wonderfully to life in this extended account. The detail is engrossing. We see Borodin composing music while conducting research in chemistry (“he would jump up and run back to the laboratory to make sure nothing had burnt out or boiled over there, meanwhile filling the corridor with improbable sequences of ninths or sevenths”); Balakirev tutoring Musorgsky (“Balakirev could not remedy the defects in his pupil’s character, but he could confront him with works of genius”); Cui doggedly producing operas during breaks from his career as a military fortifications instructor. Musorgsky asserts his independence, moving from writing songs and the showpiece Night on Bald Mountain to the magnificent Boris Godunov, meanwhile struggling against poverty and depression. In the background such important figures as Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Chernïshevsky shape the cultural milieu, while the godfather of the kuchka, critic and scholar Vladimir Stasov, is seen offering sometimes combative support. As an experienced and widely skilled musical scholar and biographer (his two-volume life of Stravinsky has been called “one of the best books ever written about a musician”), Stephen Walsh is exceptionally wellplaced to tell this story. He does so with deep understanding and panache, making Musorgksy and His Circle both important and a delight to read.

Musorgsky's Days and Works

Author : Aleksandra Anatolʹevna Orlova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Musorgsky's Days and Works written by Aleksandra Anatolʹevna Orlova and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie, samengesteld uit teksten, verschenen tussen 1828 en 1881, over de Russische componist (1839-1881)

Nicolas Slonimsky: Early articles for the Boston evening transcript

Author : Nicolas Slonimsky
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415968658
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Nicolas Slonimsky: Early articles for the Boston evening transcript written by Nicolas Slonimsky and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was an influential and celebrated writer on music. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1894, in his 101 years he taught and coached music; conducted the premieres of several 20th century masterpieces; composed works for piano and voice; and oversaw the 5th-8th editions of the classicBaker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Beginning in 1926, Slonimsky resided in the United States. From his arrival, he wrote provocative articles on contemporary music and musicians, many of whom were his personal friends. Working as a freelance author, he built a large file of reviews, articles, and even manuscripts for books that were never published. This is the first volume of a 4 volume collection on the best of this material.

Jewish Identities

Author : Klara Moricz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520933682
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Identities written by Klara Moricz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "Jewish music," which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Klára Móricz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century "Jewish music" in three case studies: first, Russian Jewish composers of the first two decades of the twentieth century; second, the Swiss American Ernest Bloch; and third, Arnold Schoenberg. Examining these composers in the context of emerging Jewish nationalism, widespread racial theories, and utopian tendencies in modernist art and twentieth-century politics, Móricz describes a trajectory from paradigmatic nationalist techniques, through assumptions about the unintended presence of racial essences, to an abstract notion of Judaism.

Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov

Author : Gerald Seaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317646185
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov written by Gerald Seaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition is an annotated bibliography of all substantial, relevant published resources relating to the Russian composer. First published in 1988, this revised and expanded volume incorporates new information about the composer appearing over the last two decades, including literary publications, articles and reviews. Other sections provide a brief biographical sketch, selective discography, chronology and list of Rimsky-Korsakov’s works.

Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

Author : Daniel Jaffé
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538130084
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Russian Music written by Daniel Jaffé and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Representing Russia's Orient

Author : Adalyat Issiyeva
Publisher : AMS Studies in Music
ISBN 13 : 0190051361
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Representing Russia's Orient written by Adalyat Issiyeva and published by AMS Studies in Music. This book was released on 2020 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on long-forgotten archives and detailed case studies, Representing Russia's Orient reveals how complex representations of oriental subjects in nineteenth-century Russian art music, which often merged elements of East and West, contributed to the formation of Russia's national identity.

Collaborative Creative Thought and Practice in Music

Author : Margaret S. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317164431
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Collaborative Creative Thought and Practice in Music written by Margaret S. Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and explanations of creativity as a social construct. While in collectivist cultures the assimilation (but not the denial) of individual authorship into the complexities of group production and benefit has been a feature, the notion of the lone individual creator has been persistent. Systems theories acknowledge the role of others, yet at heart these are still individual views of creativity - focusing on the creative individual drawing upon the work of others rather than recognizing the mutually constitutive elements of social interactions across time and space. Focusing on the domain of music, the approach taken in this book falls into three sections: investigations of the people, processes, products, and places of collaborative creativity in compositional thought and practice; explorations of the ways in which creative collaboration provides a means of crossing boundaries between disciplines such as music performance and musicology; and studies of the emergence of creative thought and practice in educational contexts including that of the composer and the classroom. The volume concludes with an extended chapter that reflects on the ways in which the studies reported advance understandings of creative thought and practice. The book provides new perspectives to our understandings of the role of collaborative thought and processes in creative work across the domain of music including: composition, musicology, performance, music education and music psychology.

The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

Author : Robert Philip
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300120699
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music written by Robert Philip and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950 Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, this engaging companion explores and unpacks the most frequently performed works, including symphonies, concertos, overtures, suites, and ballet scores. It offers intriguing details about each piece while avoiding technical terminology that might frustrate the non-specialist reader. Philip identifies key features in each work, as well as subtleties and surprises that await the attentive listener, and he includes enough background and biographical information to illuminate the composer's intentions. Organized alphabetically from Bach to Webern, this compendium will be indispensable for classical music enthusiasts, whether in the concert hall or enjoying recordings at home.

Five Operas and a Symphony

Author : Boris Gasparov
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133162
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Five Operas and a Symphony written by Boris Gasparov and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Operas of Maurice Ravel

Author : Emily Kilpatrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316395707
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Operas of Maurice Ravel written by Emily Kilpatrick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919–25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal the heart of Ravel's compositional aesthetic. In this comprehensive study, Emily Kilpatrick unites musical, literary, biographical and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's operas. In documenting the operas' history, setting them within the cultural canvas of their creation and pursuing diverse strands of analytical and thematic exploration, Kilpatrick reveals crucial aspects of the composer's working life: his approach to creative collaboration, his responsiveness to cultural, aesthetic and musical debate, and the centrality of language and literature in his compositional practice. The first study of its kind, this book is an invaluable resource for students, specialists, opera-goers and devotees of French music.