Experiencing Tchaikovsky : a listener's companion / David Schroeder.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Listener's companionPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015Copyright date: 2015Description: xxii, 215 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442232990 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1442232994 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781442233003 (ebook)
  • 1442233001 (ebook)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML 410 .C4 S37 2015
Contents:
Symphonic poems, Shakespeare, and music with meaning -- A little help from my friends : concertos -- For the love of Mozart : chamber music, suites, and serenades -- Ballet's new way : Swan Lake -- Pushkin's gentle mockery, Tchaikovsky's immoderate ardor : Eugene Onegin -- Symphony as opera -- Sorcery, caprice, blindness, saints, and stacked decks : more operas -- Two fairy-tale ballets -- Above and beyond : from his death to the present.
Summary: In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional views of Tchaikovsky to explore the dramatic impact of his music by walking readers through the remarkable range of works by this great Russian composer.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205) and index.

Symphonic poems, Shakespeare, and music with meaning -- A little help from my friends : concertos -- For the love of Mozart : chamber music, suites, and serenades -- Ballet's new way : Swan Lake -- Pushkin's gentle mockery, Tchaikovsky's immoderate ardor : Eugene Onegin -- Symphony as opera -- Sorcery, caprice, blindness, saints, and stacked decks : more operas -- Two fairy-tale ballets -- Above and beyond : from his death to the present.

In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional views of Tchaikovsky to explore the dramatic impact of his music by walking readers through the remarkable range of works by this great Russian composer.

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