Intersections and transpositions : Russian music, literature, and society
This collection serves as an introduction to the great variety of approaches being used by Slavicists and historians to situate music and literature in the Russian cultural imagination. The first part focuses on music in art; part two centres on music in life.
Print Book, English, 1998
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780810115804, 0810115808
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Introduction / Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Susanin, two Glinkas, and Ryleev: history-making in A life for the Tsar / Thomas P. Hodge
The Boris plot on stage: Karamzin, Pushkin, and Musorgsky as historical thinkers / Caryl Emerson
Epic melodies: an examination of folk motifs in the text and music of Prince Igor / Jennifer Fuller
Sonata form in Chekhov's "The black monk" / Rosamund Bartlett
The Golden cockerel between realism and modernism / Justin Weir
Russian expressionism at the opera: Prokofiev's The gambler / Alexander Burry
Interview with "The nose": Shostakovich's adaptation of Gogol / James Morgan. Music and poetry: the case of Shostakovich and Blok / Tim Langen and Jesse Langen
Temporal counterpoint as a principle of formation in Doctor Zhivago / Boris Gasparov
The domestic muse: music at home in the twilight of serfdom / Richard Stites
Signora Melas, or an Italian soprano in Russia / Ilya Vinitsky
Her final debut: the Kadmina legend in Russian literature / Julie Buckler
Assigning meaning to "Musical speech": the theories of Boleslav Iavorsky in the cultural revolution / Amy Nelson
On the peculiarities of Soviet rock and roll / Nicholas Glossop