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Commemorating the centenary of Tchaikovsky's death, these essays reassess the life and work of the composer from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the musicological and biographical to broader ones addressing his place in the development of the arts in Europe and America. As they make clear, there is much about Tchaikovsky's achievement that has been taken for granted, and the essays included in this collection represent as much acts of reevaluation as of celebration.
After a broad synthesis of Tchaikovsky's relation to the literature, music, and theater of the 18th and 19th centuries, there are sections devoted to Tchaikovsky and his musical contemporaries; Tchaikovsky's lost opera, The Oprichnik; Tchaikovsky's mature operatic work; his place in Russian Orthodoxy and nationalism; and contemporary perspectives on his life and works. The volume concludes with discussions on Tchaikovsky scholarship, the place of the composer in American and Russian musical education, and the interpretation and performance of his ballets. It is an important collection for scholars and other researchers involved in Russian music and ballet.
Table of Contents
Changing Perspectives on the Composer
Tchaikovsky: A New View--A Centennial Essay by Richard Taruskin
Tchaikovsky and His Music in Anglo-American Criticism, 1890s-1950s by Malcolm Hamrick Brown
The Tchaikovsky Myths: A Critical Reassessment by Alexander Poznansky
Tchaikovsky and His Musical Contemporaries
Tchaikovsky and Wagner: A Reassessment by Rosamund Bartlett
Analysis and Influence: A Comparison of Rhythmic Structures in the Instrumental Music of Schumann and Tchaikovsky by Joseph C. Kraus
Truth vs. Beauty: Comparative Text Settings by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky by Leslie Kearney
The Oprichnik: Tchaikovsky's "Lost" Opera
Culture and Nationalism: Tchaikovsky's Visions of Russia in The Oprichink by Susan Beam Eggers
The Intrigue of Love and Illusion in Tchaikovsky's The Oprichink by Anne Swartz
The Mature Operatic Composer
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin: Tatiana and Lensky, the Third Couple by Truman Bullard
"But Was My Eugene Happy?": Musical and Dramatic Tensions in Eugene Onegin by Byron Nelson
Musical Historicism in The Queen of Spades by James Parakilas
Tchaikovsky, Russian Orthodoxy, and Nationalism
Tchaikovsky's Roots in the Russian Choral Tradition by Olga Dolskaya
A Stranger in a Strange Land: Tchaikovsky as a Composer of Church Music by Vladimir Morosan
Tchaikovsky, the Tsars, and the Tsarist National Anthem by William H. Parsons
Other Perspectives, Contemporary and Modern
Tchaikovsky: The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name by Samuel Lipman
The Image of the Composer in Modest Tchaikovsky's Play The Symphony by Stephany Gould
Exploding the Romantic Myth: Ken Russell's The Music Lovers by James H. Krukones
Round-Table Discussions
Biographical Issues in Tchaikovsky Scholarship, Moderated by John Marcus
Tchaikovsky in American and Russian Musical Education, Moderated by Joel Sachs
Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Interpretation and Performance, Moderated by Jeanne Fuchs
Appendix I: Musical Examples
Appendix II: Conference Program
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 Mar 1999 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 432 |
| ISBN | 9780313308253 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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