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Author:   Rita McAllister (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) ,  Christina Guillaumier (Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal College of Music, London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.40cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 16.20cm
Weight:   0.873kg
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9780190670764

ISBN 10:   0190670762
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   02 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgments About the Companion Website A Note on Archival Sources Rita McAllister Preface Simon Morrison Introduction: Why Re-Assess Prokofiev? Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier Part I Prokofiev and the Russian Models 1 Prokofiev and the Russian Tradition Marina Raku 2 Prokofiev and the Development of Soviet Composition in the 1920s and 1930s Patrick Zuk 3 Prokofiev and the Soviet Symphony Daniel Tooke Part II Prokofiev and his Contemporaries 4 'Monsieur Prokofieff': Prokofiev in the French Context Marina Frolova-Walker 5 Prokofiev and Shostakovich: A Two-Way Influence Ivana Medic 6 Prokofiev and Atovmian: The Story of a Unique Friendship Nelly Kravetz Part III Music and Text: Prokofiev's Relationship with his Literary Sources 7 The Sun-Sounding Scythian: Prokofiev's Musical Interpretation of Russian Silver-Age Poetry Polina Dimova 8 Editing Prokofiev's Seven, they are Seven: A Case Study Nicolas Moron 9 From Film Score to Art Music and Back: Prokofiev's Film Music in the Context of Text-Based Genres Julia Khait 10 Semyon Kotko and War and Peace: Prokofiev and His Collaborators Terry Dean Part IV Drama and Gesture 11 Staging Prokofiev's Early Ballet Jane Pritchard 12 Drama, Theatre and Gesture in the Operas of Prokofiev Christina Guillaumier 13 Audio-Visual Montage in Ivan the Terrible: Understanding Prokofiev's Film Score through Eisensteinian Sound Theory Katya Ermolaeva 14 'Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death..': An Introduction to Prokofiev's Thanatology Natalia Savkina Part V Identity and Structure 15 A Genealogy of Prokofiev's Musical Gestures from the Juvenilia to the Later Piano Works Christina Guillaumier 16 The Five Piano Concertos: The Pianist's Perspective Boris Berman 17 'Things in Themselves': An Analytical Study of Prokofiev's Music Notebooks Rita McAllister 18 Towards an Analysis of Prokofiev's Middle Period Works Konrad Harley Part VI The Reception and After-Life of the Music 19 Prokofiev's Reception in the United Kingdom: A Case Study Joseph Schultz 20 Prokofiev, Soviet Influence, and the Music World in Stalinist Central Europe David G. Tompkins 21 Prokofiev in the Popular Consciousness Peter Kupfer 22 Prokofiev's Problems - and Ours Richard Taruskin Glossary Index

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A compelling reassessment of Prokofiev's career from start to finish that raises a poignant question: When we hear his music, do we hear what he heard? The answers here, derived from painstaking archival research, make plain a stark truth: Prokofiev was the most harrowed composer of the 20th century, and his music bears the marks of compromise, resistance, and resilience. -- Simon Morrison, Professor Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University This rich and insightful collection is essential reading for anyone interested in Prokofiev and the world in which he lived. The essays in Rethinking Prokofiev offer new insight into unfamiliar aspects of Prokofiev's work and fresh and compelling looks at some more familiar ones. -- Kevin Bartig, Professor of Music, Michigan State University

A compelling reassessment of Prokofiev's career from start to finish that raises a poignant question: When we hear his music, do we hear what he heard? The answers here, derived from painstaking archival research, make plain a stark truth: Prokofiev was the most harrowed composer of the 20th century, and his music bears the marks of compromise, resistance, and resilience. -- Simon Morrison, Professor Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University This rich and insightful collection is essential reading for anyone interested in Prokofiev and the world in which he lived. The essays in Rethinking Prokofiev offer new insight into unfamiliar aspects of Prokofiev's work and fresh and compelling looks at some more familiar ones. -- Kevin Bartig, Professor of Music, Michigan State University

Author Information

Rita McAllister is a composer, pianist, educationalist, and writer on music. She holds a Research Chair at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge: her doctoral thesis was on the operas of Sergei Prokofiev. She has published extensively on Prokofiev and on many other aspects of Russian and Soviet music in journals, magazines, and music encyclopedias, and recently re-constructed the first version of Prokofiev's War and Peace, which was premièred in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Rostov-on-Don. Christina Guillaumier is a musicologist, pianist, and writer on music. She is Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music (London) and is a member of the Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. A graduate of the Universities of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Oxford, her research has been awarded several grants and fellowships. She is a published author on Russian music, including Prokofiev's childhood compositions, his operas, and his early orchestral music.

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