Musorgsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 7, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780691016238
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Vocal music; Music Of The 19th Century; Music/Songbooks; Music; Russia; Individual Composer & Musician; Music / History & Criticism; Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich; History & Criticism - General; History & Criticism - By Composer
First sentence: IF THERE was a musical idiom that more than any other distinguished and epitomized the "early kuchkist" period, when the Balakirev circle was indeed a unified "mighty little bunch" and Chaikovsky a friendly fellow-traveler, it was the "intonation" of the melismatic peasant song, the so-called protyazhnaya.