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" Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov : "
Caryl Emerson, Robert William Oldani.
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BL
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892141
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Emerson, Caryl.
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Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov : : myths, realities, reconsiderations /\ Caryl Emerson, Robert William Oldani.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 1994.
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Cambridge music handbooks
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xiii, 339 pages :: illustrations, portraits, music, facsimile ;; 24 cm
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0521361931
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: 9780521361934
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Includes discography (pages 317-323), bibliographical references (p. 324-332) , and index.
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1. Tsar Boris in history -- 2. Musorgsky's literary sources, Karamzin and Pushkin -- 3. Narrative and musical synopsis of the opera -- 4. History of the composition, rejection, revision, and acceptance of Boris Godunov -- 5. A tale of two productions -- St. Petersburg (1874-1882), Paris (1908) -- 6. Boris and the censor: documents -- 7. The opera through the years: selected texts in criticism -- 8. The Boris libretto as a formal, literary, and historical problem -- 9. The music -- 10. Boris Godunov during the jubilee decade: the 1980s and beyond.
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Caryl Emerson (a literary specialist) and Robert William Oldani (a music historian) take a new and comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. The result is both a historical study of a famous work and an interpretive piece of scholarship.
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The topics discussed include: the "Boris Tale" in history; Karamzin's history and Pushkin's drama as literary sources; Musorgsky's Innovations as a librettist and as a theorist of the sung Russian word; the strange story of the opera's composition and revision; its first productions at home and abroad; and an in-depth musical analysis. In the process, several often-met errors in Musorgsky scholarship are clarified and corrected. A final chapter speculates on the opera's themes of political murder, guilt, and legitimacy - so important to Russian literary and national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - and the new role the "Boris plot" and its composer might come to play in more recent open phases of Russian cultural life.
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The volume contains a selection of classic texts in criticism, numerous production photographs, a bibliography and discography. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of opera, music history, and Russian literature and culture as well as to opera enthusiasts.
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Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich,1839-1881., Boris Godunov, (1872)
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Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich,1839-1881., Boris Godunov.
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Moussorgski, Modeste Pétrovitch,1839-1881., Boris Godounov.
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Musorgskij, Modest P., Boris Godunov.
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Musorgskij, Modest Petrovič, 1839-1881, Boris Godunov
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Boris Godoenov (Moessorgski)
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Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich)
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782.1/092
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ML410.M97E43 1994
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18.53bcl
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24.50bcl
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24.62bcl
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9,2ssgn
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LP 65020rvk
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Oldani, Robert William.
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