Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker

By Roland John Wiley

Book Overview

Tchaikovsky's Ballets combines a detailed and thorough analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker with descriptions of the first productions of these works in Imperial Russia. A background chapter on the ballet audience, the collaboration of composer and balletmaster,
and Moscow of the 1860's leads into an account of the first production of Swan Lake in 1877. A discussion of theater reforms initiated by the Director of the Imperial Theaters prepares the reader for a study of the still-famous 1890 St. Petersburg production of Sleeping Beauty. Wiley then explains
how the Nutcracker, produced just two years after Sleeping Beauty, was seen in a much less favorable light than it is now. Separate chapters are devoted to the music of each ballet and translations of published libretti, choreographer's instructions to the composer, and the balletmaster's plans for
Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker are reproduced in appendices.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198162499
• ISBN13: 9780198162490
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Issue with seller: Missing pages 305 to 336

As a researcher, sometimes I order books and use a bit of them or get to them in a few months. In working with this book, which is a fine publicaiton of Roland John Wiley, the bookseller sold me a copy missing 31 pages of the notes section, so the book is useless. As I am past the return window I am out of commission and $75. I have never had problems buying through this site before, but now not sure. Buyer beware: when you receive your book, check to make sure all the pages are there.