Five operas and a symphony word and music in Russian culture / [electronic resource] :
Boris Gasparov.
- Yale University Press, c2005.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 268 p.) : ill.
- Russian literature and thought .
- Russian literature and thought. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-254) and index.
Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style -- Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia -- Eugene Onegin in the age of realism -- Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style (Wagner and Musorgsky) -- Lost in a symbolist city : multiple chronotypes in Chaikovsky's The queen of spades -- A testimony : Shostakovich's Fourth symphony and the end of Romantic narrative -- "Popolo di Pekino" : Musorgsky's Muscovy in early twentieth-century Europe -- "Prima la musica, poi le parole" : musical genealogy of a national anthem.
Music--History and criticism.--Russia Music--History and criticism.--Soviet Union Opera--Russia. Music and literature. Musique--Histoire et critique.--Russie Musique--Histoire et critique.--URSS Musique et littérature. MUSIC--Genres & Styles--International.