Gasparov, B.

Five operas and a symphony word and music in Russian culture / [electronic resource] : Boris Gasparov. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. - xxii, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Russian literature and thought . - Russian literature and thought. .

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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Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. no. 4, op. 43. Symphonies,


Music--History and criticism.--Russia
Music--History and criticism.--Soviet Union
Opera--Russia.
Music and literature.


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