MODEST MUSORGSKY AND BORIS GODUNOV by Caryl Emerson, Robert William Oldani ( 9780521361934 )

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Title:

MODEST MUSORGSKY AND BORIS GODUNOV
MYTHS, REALITIES, RECONSIDERATIONS

By:

Caryl Emerson, Robert William Oldani

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Hardback

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0521361931

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9780521361934

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

10 March, 1994

Series:

Cambridge Opera Handbooks

Pages:

356

Description:

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

Synopsis:

Caryl Emerson (a literary specialist) and Robert William Oldani (a music historian) take a 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 interpretative piece of scholarship. 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 phases of Russian cultural life.

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17 b/w illus.

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