Overview

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.

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Author:   Alexandar Mihailovic
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 49
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780313308253

ISBN 10:   031330825
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   30 March 1999
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Tchaikovsky as Our Contemporary by Alexandar Mihailovic 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"

Reviews

?A classic of this kind, this invigorating book will prove to be a useful tool for all those whose field of scholarship is to be found in Russian music and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century.?-The Russian Review

Author Information

ALEXANDAR MIHAILOVIC is Associate Professor of Russian at Hofstra University. An expert on Russian literature, he has written extensively on the subject, including Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse.

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