New perspectives in Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov"
Author : Robert William Oldani
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File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Robert William Oldani
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : ROBERT WILLIAM OLDANI (JR.)
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Page : 391 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Robert W. Oldani
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Page : 379 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : D. J. Hoek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1461700795
This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.
Author : Caryl Emerson
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1986-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Within a Bakhtinian framework, Caryl Emerson explores these three versions of the Boris Tale, the context of their genesis, and their complex interrelationships.
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0691224064
"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 : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 1930841582
A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis.
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520268067
This volume gathers 36 essays by one of the leading scholars in the study of Russian music. An extensive introduction lays out the main issues and a justification of Taruskin's approach, seen both in the light of his intellectual development and in that of the changing intellectual environment.
Author : Viktor Beli︠a︡ev
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Page : 59 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : Modest Mussorgsky
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0714544981
This famous work has had a chequered performance history, and Professor Laurel E. Fay points out that the interpretation of the opera depends on which edition is used. Robert Oldani introduces the "e;Boris problem"e;: Pushkin's play was not an obvious choice for a young composer, since it had been banned for forty years, and it is the Russian people, rather than any single character, who is the protagonist. Alex de Jonge examines its uniquely Russian character and notes the unsettling parallels of the history of old Russia with today. Nigel Osborne's comparison of the Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky versions highlights their individual qualities.Contents: Looking into 'Boris Godunov', Robert W. Oldani; A Historical Introduction, Nicholas John; The Drama and Music of 'Boris', Laurel E. Fay; Around 'Boris Godunov', Alex de Jonge; Boris: prince or peasant?, Nigel Osborne; Boris Godunov: Russian libretto (transliterated), Modest Mussorgsky; Boris Godunov: English translation by David Lloyd-Jones