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Rethinking Prokofiev (Paperback)
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Rethinking Prokofiev (Paperback)
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Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly
understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously. The
turbulent times in which Prokofiev lived and the chronology of his
travels-he left Russia in the wake of Revolution, and returned at
the height of the Stalinist purges-have caused unusually polarized
appraisals of his music. While individual, distinctive, and
instantly recognizable, Prokofiev's music was also
idiosyncratically tonal in an age when tonality was largely passe.
Prokofiev's output therefore has been largely elusive and difficult
to assess against contemporary trends. More than sixty years after
the composer's death, editors Rita McAllister and Christina
Guillaumier offer Rethinking Prokofiev as an assessment that
redresses this enigmatic composer's legacy. Often more political
than artistic, these appraisals have depended not only upon the
date of publication but also the geographical location of the
writer. Commissioned from some of the most distinguished and rising
scholars in the field, this collection highlights the background
and context of Prokofiev's work. Contributors delve into the
composer's relationship to nineteenth-century Russian traditions,
Silver-Age and Symbolist composers and poets, the culture of Paris
in the 1920s and '30s, and to his later Soviet colleagues and
younger contemporaries. They also investigate his reception in the
West, his return to Russia, and the effect of his music on
contemporary popular culture. Still, the main focus of the book is
on the music itself: his early, experimental piano and vocal works,
as well as his piano concertos, operas, film scores, early ballets,
and late symphonies. Through an empirical examination of his
characteristic harmonies, melodies, cadences, and musical
gestures-and through an analysis of the newly uncovered contents of
his sketch-books-contributors reveal much of what makes Prokofiev
an idiosyncratic genius and his music intriguing, often dramatic,
and almost always beguiling.
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