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Author : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Musorgsky Reader: a Life of M.P. Musorgsky in Letters and Documents written by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Leyda
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Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Musorgsky Reader written by Jay Leyda and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Leyda
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Mussorgsky Reader written by Jay Leyda and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199772924
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
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.
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224064
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
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.
Author : Jay Leyda
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Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Musorgsky Reader written by Jay Leyda and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199813698
Total Pages : 3856 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Oxford History of Western Music written by Richard Taruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 3856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c
Author : Don Michael Randel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674372993
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music written by Don Michael Randel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.
Author : Stanley Sadie
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Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Monnet to Nirvana written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Leyda
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Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Musorgsky Reader written by Jay Leyda and published by . This book was released on with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amanda Holden
Publisher : Penguin USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140514759
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The New Penguin Opera Guide written by Amanda Holden and published by Penguin USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides biographical sketches for nearly 850 composers along with articles on approximately 2,000 works.
Author : Malcolm Hamrick Brown
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Musorgsky, in Memoriam, 1881-1981 written by Malcolm Hamrick Brown and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sergei Bertensson
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Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Musorgskij Reader written by Sergei Bertensson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Modeste Petrovich Mussorgsky
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (852 download)
Download or read book a life of Modeste Petrovich Mussorgsky in letters and documents written by Modeste Petrovich Mussorgsky and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1466862890
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Natasha's Dance written by Orlando Figes and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together. Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg--a "window on the West"--and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works--by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall--with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife. Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory--a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.
Author : Jay Leyda
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Leyda Musorgsky Rdr written by Jay Leyda and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1970-06-21 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Musical Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
