Edited by Alan Bush. — London: The Pilot Press 1944. — Reprinted by Scholarly Press, 1972. — 128 p. Professor Igor Boeltza's "Handbook of Soviet Music" is a compendious up-to-date survey of Soviet concert, operatic, and ballet music. Forty Soviet composers are dealt with indidually. This is less than 10 per cent. of the total membership of the Union of Soviet omposers....
Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2002. — 391 p. Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared...
Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. — 413 p. In 1979, the alleged memoirs of legendary composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) were published as Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov. Since its appearance, however, Testimony has been the focus of controversy in Shostakovich studies, as doubts were raised concerning its...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. - 294 p. Attending Opera: A Literary Ethnography of the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Theater Embodying Opera: The Prima Donna in Russia Representing Opera: Scene and Self Naturalizing Opera: The Case of La Traviata in Russia Reading Opera: The Theater of Psychological Prose Divining Opera: Literary Tales of Operatic Heroines Appendix:...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 361 p.: musical examples. The riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris has long been one of the most infamous and intriguing events of modern musical history. The third in a series of works commissioned for Sergei Diaghalev's famed Ballets Russes, the piece...
London: Routledge, 2009. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 9780415546201; ISBN13: 978-0415546201 — (Basee/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. Book 9) This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. It examines the different strategies adopted by composers and musicians in their attempts to carve out careers in a rapidly...
London: Routledge, 2009. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 9780415546201; ISBN13: 978-0415546201 — (Basee/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. Book 9) This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. It examines the different strategies adopted by composers and musicians in their attempts to carve out careers in a rapidly...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. - 339 p. - ISBN: 0-521-361931 Preface and acknowledgments Tsar Boris in history Musorgsky’s literary sources, Karamzin and Pushkin Narrative and musical synopsis of the opera History of the composition, rejection, revision, and acceptance of Boris Godunov A tale of two productions — St. Petersburg (1874-1882), Paris (1908) Entr’acte...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 408 p. Notes on the contributors Chronology Pauline Fairclough and David Fanning Instrumental works Personal integrity and public service: the voice of the symphonist Eric Roseberry The string quartets: in dialogue with form and tradition Judith Kuhn Paths to the First Symphony David Fanning Shostakovich's Second Piano Sonata: a composition...
New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007. - 402 p. - ISBN: 978-0-300-11273-3 Constructing the Russian national character: literature and music The Pushkin and Glinka mythologies Glinka’s three attempts at Russianness The beginning and the end of the "Russian style" Nationalism after the Kuchka Musical nationalism in Stalin’s Soviet Union
London, New Heaven: Yale University Press. 2005. — 268 p. In this eagerly anticipated 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...
Music since 1900. — Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 335 p.: misical examples Stravinsky's reinvention in the early 1920s, as both neoclassical composer and concert-pianist, is here placed at the centre of a fundamental reconsideration of his whole output - viewed from the unprecedented perspective of his relationship with the piano. Graham Griffiths assesses Stravinsky's...
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 354 p. The Silver Age and the Legacy of the 1860s Serving the Beautiful Echoes of Abramtsevo Visual Impressions Opera as Drama From Meiningen to Meyerhold Politics, Repertory, and the Market Faces of the Enterprise
University of Rochester Press, 2014. — 250 p. In the nineteenth century, Russian composers and critics were encouraged to cultivate a national style to distinguish their music from the dominant Italian, French, and German traditions. Not Russian Enough? explores this aspiration for a nationalist musical tradition as it was carried out in the cosmopolitan world of opera. Rutger...
Indiana University Press, 2009. — 359 p. Introduction: The New Patriarch The True False Dmitrii and the Death of Music in Moscow ‘‘Wondrous singers and exceptional voices’’: Singers and Singing in Muscovy ‘‘Sweet and harmonious singing’’: Domestic Singers and Domestic Singing Tavern and Wedding: The Instrumental Traditions at the Muscovite Court Nikolai Diletskii: Language and...
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 366 p.:il: musical examples Tchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine and feminine. In this book, through consideration of his music and biography, scholars from several disciplines...
Ashgate,2011. - 294 p.: ill.: musical examples When Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin's music was performed during his lifetime, it always elicited ecstatic responses from the listeners. Wilhelm Gericke, conductor of the Vienna opera, rushed backstage after one of Scriabin's concerts and fell on his knees crying, 'It's genius, it's genius...'. After the composer's death in 1915,...
The Bard Music Festival. — Princeton University Press, 2013. — 385 p.: ill.: musical examples Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important...
2nd edition. — Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. — 328 p. Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison's influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including previously unavailable archival materials about Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, this wholly revised edition is both...
University of California Press, 2002. — 362 p. Chaikovsky and Decadence Rimsky-Korsakov and Religious Syncretism Scriabin and Theurgy Prokofiev and Mimesis
McGill -Queens Univercity Press, 2004. — 244 p:il.: musical examples Dmitri Shoshtakovich (1906-1975) is recognized as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century yet few people know that he was also an outstanding concert pianist who maintained a hectic performing schedule. In Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist Sofia Moshevich offers the first detailed examination of...
Russian Music Studies. — Indiana University Press, 2015. — 228 p.: musical examples. The piano works of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) are among the most treasured musical compositions of the 20th century. In this volume, pianist and Russian music scholar Sofia Moshevich provides detailed interpretive analyses of the ten major piano solo works by Shostakovich, carefully noting...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0-195340-58-2. In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with ethnomusicological, historical, and philological...
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. — 330 p. — ISBN: 0-271-02369-4. List of Musical Examples Preface and Acknowledgments Bread, Art, and Soviet Power: Musicians in Revolution and Civil War The Peculiarities of the Soviet Modem: NEP Culture and the Promotion of “Contemporary” Music The Three Faces of the Musical Left Of “Cast-Off Barroom Garbage”...
Indiana University Press, 1994. — 242 p. Although the Russian piano concerto had inauspicious beginnings, its development during the 19th century laid superb artistic foundations for the monumental concerti of the 20th century. Insights gained here will help performers and teachers to understand later developments in concerto writing.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 408 p. — ISBN10: 0195341937; ISBN13: 978-0195341935. Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this, and in no realm of the arts was...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 239 p. The music of Tchaikovsky remains as much loved in the twenty-first century as it was a hundred years ago. But it has so much more to offer than luscious orchestration and tuneful melodies. In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener’s Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional views of Tchaikovsky to...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. - 722 p. Experimentation 1917-21 Introduction. Before the Revolution Music during the Early Years of the Revolution Consolidation 1921-32 Musical Life under the New Economic Policy and the Five Year Plan Opera, Ballet and Orchestral Music of the 1920’s Research and Education, the Institutes and Conservatories Regimentation 1932-53...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. — 415 p. — ISBN: 0-691-09147-1. Foreword by Caryl Emerson A Note on Transliteration A Note on Dates Pronouncing the Name Introduction: Who Speaks for Musorgsky? "Little Star": An Etude in the Folk Style Handel, Shakespeare, and Musorgsky: The Sources and Limits of Russian Musical Realism Serov and Musorgsky The Present in the Past:...
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. - 560 p. - ISBN: 0-8357-1245-1 Note on Transliteration Glinka’s Ambiguous Legacy and the Birth Pangs of Russian Opera “This Way to the Future”: The Case of Serov’s Judith Pochvennkhestvo on the Russian Operatic Stage: Serov and His Rogneda Drama Revealed Through Song: An Opera After Ostrovsky The Stone Guest and Its Progeny “Kuchkism”in...
University of California Press, 2009. — 407 p. Some Thoughts on the History and Historiography of Russian Music For Ukraine, He’s a Native Son, Regardless “Classicism” à la Russe A Wonderful Beginning Dargomïzhsky and His Stone Guest Pathetic Symphonist: Chaikovsky, Russia, Sexuality, and the Study of Music Chaikovsky and the Literary Folk: A Study in Misplaced Derision The...
Indiana University Press, 2007. — 376 p. The first modern biography in English of Russian composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein, this book places Rubinstein within the context of Russian and western European musical culture during the late 19th century, exploring his rise to international fame from humble origins in Bessarabia, as well as his subsequent rapid decline and...
Hermes Oy, Finland 2016. — 670 p. — (Acta Semiotica Fennica. Approaches to Musical Semiotics). The Soviet music critic, composer and musicologist Boris Asafiev (1884–1949) played a central role in the development of Soviet conceptions of music. Elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1943 and as head of the Soviet Composers’ Union in 1947, Asafiev’s literary works came to...
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