Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.
Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.
Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
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N780.947/28
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English
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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...
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2005.
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"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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Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / Boris Gasparov.
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Russian literature and thought.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2005.
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N780.947/28
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74VKmdwrvr7A
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ISBN
0300106505 (alk. paper)
9780300106503 (alk. paper)
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780.947
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991020485429702626
