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Five Operas and a Symphony - Word and Music in Russian Culture (Hardcover)
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Five Operas and a Symphony - Word and Music in Russian Culture (Hardcover)
Series: 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 of Russian music
from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay
of musical texts with their literary and historical sources 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 "Ruslan and Ludmilla ("1842),
Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov ("1871) and "Khovanshchina ("1881),
Tchaikovsky'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.
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