Download or read book Six Great Russian Composers written by Donald Brook and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Six Great Russian Composers written by Donald Brook and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book Expositions and Developments written by Igor Stravinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Russian Composers written by Montagu Montagu-Nathan and published by London : C. Palmer & Hayward. This book was released on 1917 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Russian Composers written by Леонид Леонидович Сабанеев and published by New York : International. This book was released on 1927 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Russian Music written by Richard Taruskin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Russian Composers written by Elsa Z. Posell and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1967 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a short history of music in Russia and briefly describes the lives and music of seventeen Russian composers, from Glinka to Shostakovich.
Download or read book Themes and Conclusions written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final volume in the legendary series of Stravinsky's conversations with Robert Craft. In his foreword, dated March 1971 shortly before his death, Stravinsky wrote of his 'final work of words': 'They are hardly the last words about myself or my music that I would like to have written, and in fact they say almost nothing about the latter, except tangentially, in comments on Beethoven. It is almost five years now since I have completed an original composition, a time during which I have had to transform myself from a composer to a listener. The vacuum which this left has not been filled, but I have been able to live with it thanks, in the largest measure, to the music of Beethoven. It is certain, now that I will not be granted powers such as have recently enable Casals to publish a book at an age six years greater than mine. But I am thankful that I can listen to and love the music of other men in a way I could not do when I was composing my own.' Although Stravinsky may have written nothing new about his music in his last years, this book collects together a number of his programme notes about his own works, among them the "Symphonies of Wind Instruments "and" Jeu de Carte," and there are waspish letters to the press, wide-ranging interviews, prefaces and reviews, and a whole section entitled 'Squibs'. Readers who enjoyed the earlier volumes of recollections will find this final volume equally enlightening, diverting and enriching. This unique series of memories is essential reading for all students and lovers of Stravinsky.
Download or read book Shostakovich and Stalin written by Solomon Volkov and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of Stalin, with his unpredictable grounds for the persecution of artists. Solomon Volkov—who cowrote Shostakovich’s controversial 1979 memoir, Testimony—describes how this lethal uncertainty affected the composer’s life and work. Volkov, an authority on Soviet Russian culture, shows us the “holy fool” in Shostakovich: the truth speaker who dared to challenge the supreme powers. We see how Shostakovich struggled to remain faithful to himself in his music and how Stalin fueled that struggle: one minute banning his work, the next encouraging it. We see how some of Shostakovich’s contemporaries—Mandelstam, Bulgakov, and Pasternak among them—fell victim to Stalin’s manipulations and how Shostakovich barely avoided the same fate. And we see the psychological price he paid for what some perceived as self-serving aloofness and others saw as rightfully defended individuality. This is a revelatory account of the relationship between one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers and one of its most infamous tyrants.
Download or read book Dialogues written by Igor Stravinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Musical Life written by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian composer describes his experiences in the musical life of the late nineteenth century, his role in the development of Russian nationalism in music, and his relations with his contemporaries
Download or read book Russian Composers and Musicians written by Alexandria Vodarsky-Shiraeff and published by New York : Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Composers written by Elsa Z. Posell and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1967 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a short history of music in Russia and briefly describes the lives and music of seventeen Russian composers, from Glinka to Shostakovich.
Download or read book Six Great Russian Composers written by Donald Brook and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Folk Songs written by Vadim Prokhorov and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life," wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Russian folk songs have always played an essential part in Russian life, culture, and music. They have played an important part in the work of many great Russian composers including Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokoviev, and Stravinsky. In this new study, Vadim Prokhorov provides a historical survey and a description of the musical and poetic characteristics of Russian folk song. The songs themselves are classified into several categories: calendar songs, lyric songs, work songs, epic songs, historical songs, and the urban songs that emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. Prokhorov provides a basis for understanding the ethnomusicological principles of Russian folk song. In addition to his discussion of the various categories, he includes a generous selection of songs arranged for voice and piano, together with texts and translations of the song texts. Anyone interested in this rich repertory of folk song, whether as teacher, singer, or music lover, will find this a rewarding collection.
Download or read book Eighteenth century Russian Music written by Marina Ritzarev and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, Marina Ritzarev explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century. The book focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music during this period, rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive survey. The musical culture of the time is discussed against the background of social, political and cultural life and the importance of previously marginalized sectors is highlighted. New light is also cast on the well-researched topic of Russian opera
Download or read book Six great Russian Composers written by Donald Brook and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
