Historical Dictionary of Russian Music (eBook)

Daniel Jaffe (Autor)

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2012
458 Seiten
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-7980-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Historical Dictionary of Russian Music relates the history of Russian music through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, and organizations. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian music.

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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, Nikolay 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 Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky have played their crucial role in the development of Western music in the last century, influencing the work of virtually every notable composer of the last century.The Historical Dictionary of Russian Music covers the history of Russian music starting from the earliest archaeological discoveries to the present, including folk music, sacred music, and secular art music. The book contains a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on every major composer in Russia's history, as well as several leading composers of today, such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Rodion Shchedrin, Leonid Desyatnikov, Elena Firsova, and Pavel Karmanov. It also includes the patrons and institutions that commissioned works by those composers and the choreographers and dancers who helped shape the great ballet masterpieces. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian music.

Autor

Daniel Jaffe has presented papers and talked on Russian music at international symposiums and pre-concert presentations, done booklet notes for various record companies, and broadcast on BBC. He has written extensively on music for various publications, including feature articles and reviews for International Piano, Gramophone, and BBC Music Magazine, of which he was the reviews editor. His specialization is Sergey Prokofiev, on whom he has written a biography.

Inhalt

Editor’s Foreword by Jon WoronoffAcknowledgmentsReader’s NoteAcronyms and AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionThe DictionaryBibliographyAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-8108-7980-8 / 0810879808
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-7980-5 / 9780810879805