Five Operas and a Symphony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Operas and a Symphony write by Boris Gasparov. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Five Operas and a Symphony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources within the ideological and cultural contexts of their times. Each musical work becomes a tableau representing a moment in Russian history, and together the works form a coherent story of ideological and aesthetic trends as they evolved in Russia from the time of Pushkin to the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s. Gasparov discusses Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla (1842), Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (1871) and Khovanshchina (1881), Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (1878) and The Queen of Spades (1890), and Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony (1934). Offering new interpretations to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these important works, Gasparov also demonstrates how Russian music and cultural history illuminate one another.
First Nights
First Nights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Nights write by Thomas Forrest Kelly. This book was released on 2000-01-01. First Nights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.
On Russian Music
On Russian Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Russian Music write by Richard Taruskin. This book was released on 2009. On Russian Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume gathers 36 essays by one of the leading scholars in the study of Russian music. An extensive introduction lays out the main issues and a justification of Taruskin's approach, seen both in the light of his intellectual development and in that of the changing intellectual environment.
Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 4 & 5
Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 4 & 5 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 4 & 5 write by Moscow Rtv Symphony Orchestra (Musical Group). This book was released on 2009. Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 4 & 5 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The First Four Notes
The First Four Notes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Four Notes write by Matthew Guerrieri. This book was released on 2014-03-04. The First Four Notes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching back before Beethoven’s time, Matthew Guerrieri uncovers premonitions of the opening notes in the rhythms of ancient Greek poetry and the music of the French Revolution. He discusses the Fifth’s impact when it premiered, tracing the artistic, philosophical, and political reverberations across Europe to China, Russia, and the United States, from Romanticism to ring tones, from propaganda to pop. This fascinating piece of musical detective work is a treat for music lovers of every stripe.
