Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov

Author: Gerald Seaman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1317646185

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Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition is an annotated bibliography of all substantial, relevant published resources relating to the Russian composer. First published in 1988, this revised and expanded volume incorporates new information about the composer appearing over the last two decades, including literary publications, articles and reviews. Other sections provide a brief biographical sketch, selective discography, chronology and list of Rimsky-Korsakov’s works.


Nikolai Andreevich Rimskii-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreevich Rimskii-Korsakov

Author: Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich I͡Astrebt͡sev

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780231052603

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Offers a detailed look at the day-to-day life of the Russian composer, and describes his opinions on his work, his colleagues, and other composers and conductors.


Pëtr Il’ich Tchaikovsky

Pëtr Il’ich Tchaikovsky

Author: Gerald R. Seaman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-23

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1317303091

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Pëtr Il’ich Tchaikovsky: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography of substantial, relevant published resources relating to the Russian composer. Generally regarded as one of the most remarkable composers of the second half of the nineteenth century, Tchaikovsky is unique in that he was the first outstanding Russian composer to receive a professional musical education, being one of the first students to graduate from the newly opened St. Petersburg Conservatory. Composer of six symphonies, concertos, orchestral works, eight major operas, three ballets, and many chamber, keyboard and vocal works, he also composed important sacred music, which is currently being reassessed by contemporary Russian musicologists who are able to examine materials previously restricted or inaccessible during the Soviet period. Like his colleagues in St. Petersburg, Tchaikovsky was deeply interested in Russian folk song, which plays an important part in his works. This volume evaluates the major studies written about the composer, incorporating new information that has appeared in literary publications, articles and reviews.


A Short History of Opera

A Short History of Opera

Author: Donald Jay Grout

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 1049

ISBN-13: 0231119585

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"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.


Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov

Author: Caryl Emerson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780521369763

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Caryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov.


Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

Author: Daniel Jaffé

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-02-15

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 1538130084

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Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today’s lingua franca both in the concert hall and on the soundtracks of international blockbusters from Hollywood. Meanwhile, the innovations of Modest Musorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky have played their crucial role in the development of Western music, influencing the work of virtually every notable composer of the past century. Historical Dictionary of Russian Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries for each of Russia’s major performing organizations and performance venues, and on specific genres such as ballet, film music, symphony and church music. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Music.


Hit Songs, 1900-1955

Hit Songs, 1900-1955

Author: Don Tyler

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2007-04-16

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 0786429461

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This is a chronology of the most famous songs from the years before rock 'n' roll. The top hits for each year are described, including vital information such as song origin, artist(s), and chart information. For many songs, the author includes any web or library holdings of sheet music covers, musical scores, and free audio files. An extensive collection of biographical sketches follows, providing performing credits, relevant professional awards, and brief biographies for hundreds of the era's most popular performers, lyricists, and composers. Includes an alphabetical song index and bibliography.


Building

Building

Author: Isaiah Berlin

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-08-31

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 1448191343

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In the period covered here (1960–75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes US President (and is assassinated); Berlin dines with JFK on the day he is told of the Soviet missile bases in Cuba; the Six-Day Arab–Israeli war of 1967 creates problems that are still with us today; Richard M. Nixon succeeds Johnson as US President and resigns over Watergate; and the long agony of the Vietnam War grinds on in the background. At the same time Berlin publishes some of his most important work, including Four Essays on Liberty – the key texts of his liberal pluralism – and the essays later included in Vico and Herder. He talks on the radio, appears on television and in documentary films and gives numerous lectures, especially his celebrated Mellon Lectures, later published as The Roots of Romanticism. Behind these public events is a constant stream of gossip and commentary, acerbic humour and warm personal feeling. Berlin writes about an enormous range of topics to a sometimes dazzling cast of correspondents. This new volume leaves no doubt that Berlin is one of the very best letter-writers of the twentieth century.