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Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.

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Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.

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Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.

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Full title

Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.

Author / Creator

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Call Numbers

N780.947/28

Record Identifier

74VKmdwrvr7A

MMS ID

991020485429702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

p. cm.

Contents

Introduction : in the shadow of literature -- 1. Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style -- 2. Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia -- 3. Eugene Onegin in the age of realism -- 4. Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style...

Publication information

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Place of Publication

Connecticut

Date Published

c2005.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"In this 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 contex...

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Full title

Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Russian literature and thought.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2005.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N780.947/28

Record Identifier

74VKmdwrvr7A

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmdwrvr7A

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ISBN

0300106505 (alk. paper)

9780300106503 (alk. paper)

DDC

780.947

MMS ID

991020485429702626

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