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Five operas and a symphony [electronic resource] : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.

By: Gasparov, B.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Russian literature and thought: Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005Description: xxii, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies, no. 4, op. 43 | Music -- Russia -- History and criticism | Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism | Opera -- Russia | Music and literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780/.947 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-254) and index.

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.

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