Five Operas and a Symphony

Word and Music in Russian Culture

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Boris Gasparov

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Hardback

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Russian Literature and Thought Series

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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 in Russian music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources and 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 Ruslin and Ludmila (1842), Musgorsky's Boris Gudonov (1871) and Khovanshchina (1881), Chaikovsky'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. "A dazzling thesis, presented by one of the Slavic field's most creative and versatile cultural historians." Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Author Biography:

Boris Gasporov is professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at Columbia University.

Release date Australia

October 15th, 2005

Author

Boris Gasparov

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

88 musical illus.

Pages

304

Series

Russian Literature and Thought Series

Dimensions

156x235x24

ISBN-13

9780300106503

Product ID

2518760

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