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Author Helmers, Rutger, 1980- author.

Title Not Russian enough? : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century Russian opera / Rutger Helmers.

Publication Info. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML1737.4 .H45 2014    Available  ---
Description xvi, 233 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Series Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 119
Eastman studies in music ; v. 119.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.
Contents A life for the Tsar and bel canto opera -- Subject matter, local color, and national style in Judith -- French theatricality and inadvertent Russianisms in the Maid of Orléans -- The Tsar's bride and the dilemma of history.
Summary In the nineteenth century, Russian composers and critics were encouraged to cultivate a national style to distinguish their music from the dominant Italian, French, and German traditions. Not Russian Enough? explores this aspiration for a nationalist musical tradition as it was carried out in the cosmopolitan world of opera. Rutger Helmers analyzes the cultural context, music, and reception of four important operas: Glinka's A Life for the Tsar (1836), Serov's Judith (1863), Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orléans (1881), and Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride (1899). He discusses such issues as the influence of Italian and French opera, the use of foreign subjects, the application of local color, and the adherence to thesics, and considers how these related to a sense of "Russianness." Besides yielding new insights for each of these works, this study offers a fresh perspective on the function of nationalist thought in the nineteenth-century Russian opera world [Publisher description].
Language English text.
Subject Opera -- Russia -- 19th century.
Opera.
Russia.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Nationalism in music.
Nationalism in music.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
ISBN 9781580465007 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1580465005 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40024457131