Tchaikovsky and his contemporaries : a centennial symposium
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Tchaikovsky and his contemporaries : a centennial symposium
（Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 49）
Greenwood Press, 1999
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Papers read at the conference held at Hofstra University, Oct. 7-9, 1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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
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
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