Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture

by Boris Gasparov and Борис Гаспаров

In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources within the ideological and cultural contexts of their times. Each musical work becomes a tableau representing a moment in Russian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300106505
• ISBN13: 9780300106503
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"