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Author Gasparov, B.

Title Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 268 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Russian literature and thought
Russian literature and thought.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-254) and index.
Contents Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style -- Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia -- Eugene Onegin in the age of realism -- Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style (Wagner and Musorgsky) -- Lost in a symbolist city : multiple chronotypes in Chaikovsky's The queen of spades -- A testimony : Shostakovich's Fourth symphony and the end of Romantic narrative -- "Popolo di Pekino" : Musorgsky's Muscovy in early twentieth-century Europe -- "Prima la musica, poi le parole" : musical genealogy of a national anthem.
Summary Gasparov discusses six major works in Russian music of the 19th and 20th centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources and within the ideological and cultural contexts of their times.
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Subject Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies, no. 4, op. 43, C minor.
Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich.
Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies, no. 4, op. 43.
Symphonies (Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich)
Music -- Russia -- History and criticism.
Music.
Russia.
Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.
Soviet Union.
Opera -- Russia.
Opera.
Music and literature.
Music and literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Gasparov, B. Five operas and a symphony. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005 0300106505 9780300106503 (DLC) 2005042601 (OCoLC)57682271
ISBN 9780300133165 (electronic book)
0300133162 (electronic book)
0300106505 (alkaline paper)
9780300106503 (alkaline paper)
1281731366
9781281731364