Five operas and a symphony
Subtitle: word and music in Russian culture
By: Boris Gasparov.
Series: Russian literature and thought
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975; Music -- Russia -- History and criticism; Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism; Opera -- Russia; Music and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style; title: Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia; title: Eugene Onegin in the age of realism; title: Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style (Wagner and Musorgsky); title: Lost in a symbolist city : multiple chronotypes in Chaikovsky's The queen of spades; title: A testimony : Shostakovich's Fourth symphony and the end of Romantic narrative; title: "Popolo di Pekino" : Musorgsky's Muscovy in early twentieth-century Europe; title: "Prima la musica, poi le parole" : musical genealogy of a national anthem.