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Tchaikovsky and his contemporaries : a centennial symposium / edited by Alexandar Mihailovic ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University.
| Other author | Mihailovic, Alexandar, editor. |
| Other author | Hofstra University. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1999. |
| Description | xiv, 418 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 49 Contributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 49. ^A466730 |
| Contents | Introduction. Tchaikovsky as our contemporary / Alexandar Mihailovic -- Part I. Changing perspectives on the composer. Tchaikovsky: a new view - a centennial essay / Richard Taruskin -- Tchaikovsky and his music in Anglo-American criticism, 1890s-1950s / Malcolm Hamrick Brown -- The Tchaikovsky myths: a critical reassessment / Alexander Poznansky -- Part II. Tchaikovsky and his musical contemporaries. Tchaikovsky and Wagner: a reassessment / Rosamund Bartlett -- Analysis and influence: a comparison of rhythmic structures in the instrumental music of Schumann and Tchaikovsky / Joseph C. Kraus -- Truth vs. beauty: comparative text settings by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky / Leslie Kearney -- Part III. The Oprichnik: Tchaikovsky's "lost" opera. Culture and nationalism: Tchaikovsky's visions of Russia in The Oprichnik / Susan Beam Eggers -- The intrigue of love and illusion in Tchaikovsky's The Oprichnik / Anne Swartz -- Part IV. The mature operatic composer. Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin: Tatiana and Lensky, the third couple / Truman Bullard -- "But was my Eugene happy?": musical and dramatic tension in Eugene Onegin / Byron Nelson -- Musical historicism in The Queen of Spades / James Parakilas -- Part V. Tchaikovsky, Russian orthodoxy, and nationalism. Tchaikovsky's roots in the Russian choal tradition / Olga Dolskaya -- A stranger in a strange land: Tchaikovsky as a composer of church music / Vladimir Morosan -- Tchaikovsky, the Tsars, and the Tsarist national anthem / William H. Parsons -- Part VI. Other perspectives, contemporary and modern. Tchaikovsky: the love that dare not speak its name / Samuel Lipman -- The image of the composer in Modest Tchaikovsky's play The Symphony / Stephany Gould -- Exploding the romantic myth: Ken Russell's The Music Lovers / James H. Krukones -- Part VII. Round-table discussions. Biographical issues in Tchaikovsky scholarship / Moderator: John Marcus -- Tchaikovsky in American and Russian musical education / Moderator: Joel Sachs -- Tchaikovsky's ballets: interpretation and performance / Moderator: Jeanne Fuchs. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Papers read at the conference held at Hofstra University, Oct. 7-9, 1993. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98021979 |
| ISBN | 031330825X (alk. paper) |