Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition (California Studies In 20th-century Music Ser. #2)

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Synopsis
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 up to date and revelatory. Topics range from decadence to pantheism, musical devilry to narcotic-infused evocations of heaven, the influence of Wagner, and the significance of contemporaneous Russian literature. Symbolism tested boundaries and reached for extremes so as to imagine art uniting people, facilitating communion with nature, and ultimately transcending reality. Within this framework, Morrison examines four lesser-known works by canonical composers—Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergey Prokofiev—and in this new edition also considers Alexandre Gretchaninoff’s Sister Beatrice and Alexander Kastalsky’s Klara Milich, while also making the case for reviving Vladimir Rebikov’s The Christmas Tree.
Copyright:
2019

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
374 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780520421080
Related ISBNs:
9780520305465
Publisher:
University of California Press
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Copyrighted By:
The Regents of the University of California
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Music
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