Description: Further DetailsTitle: Russian Opera and the Symbolist MovementCondition: NewISBN-10: 0520229436EAN: 9780520229433ISBN: 9780520229433Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/05/2002Description: An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation. Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment. Morrison treats these largely unstudied pieces by canonical composers: Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Rimsky-Korsakov's Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Scriabin's unfinished Mysterium, and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel.The chapters, revisionist studies of these composers and scores, address separate aspects of Symbolist poetics, discussing such topics as literary and musical decadence, pagan-Christian syncretism, theurgy, and life creation, or the portrayal of art in life. The appendix offers the first complete English-language translation of Scriabin's libretto for the Preparatory Act. Providing valuable insight into both the Symbolist enterprise and Russian musicology, this book casts new light on opera's evolving, ambiguous place in fin de siecle culture.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 30mmItem Weight: 680gAuthor: Simon MorrisonGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: California Studies in 20th-Century MusicRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
Title: Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
ISBN-10: 0520229436
EAN: 9780520229433
ISBN: 9780520229433
Release Date: 08/05/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Number of Pages: 374 Pages
Publication Name: Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Composers & Musicians, General, Genres & Styles / Opera
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Simon A. Morrison
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Music, Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music Ser.
Format: Hardcover
