Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov

Name: Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov
SKU: 2121118
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Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations

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Cambridge Opera Handbooks

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Caryl Emerson (a literary specialist) and Robert William Oldani (a music historian) take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. The result is both a historical study of a famous work and an interpretative piece of scholarship. The topics discussed include: the 'Boris Tale' in history; Karamzin's history and Pushkin's drama as literary sources; Musorgsky's innovations as a librettist and as a theorist of the sung Russian word; the strange story of the opera's composition and revision; its first productions at home and abroad; and an in-depth musical analysis. In the process, several often-met errors in Musorgsky scholarship are clarified and corrected. A final chapter speculates on the opera's themes of political murder, guilt and legitimacy - so important to Russian literary and national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - and the new role the 'Boris plot' and its composer might come to play in more recent phases of Russian cultural life.

Release date NZ

November 2nd, 2006

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Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

17 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

356

Series

Cambridge Opera Handbooks

Dimensions

152x228x22

ISBN-13

9780521369763

Product ID

2121118

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