Tchaikovsky and His World / / ed. by Leslie Kearney.

Tchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine and feminine. In this book, through consideration of his music and biography, scholars from several...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1998
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 35
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Permissions
  • Preface
  • PART I. BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS
  • Tchaikovsky: A Life Reconsidered
  • Unknown Tchaikovsky: A Reconstruction of Previously Censored Letters to His Brothers (1875-1879)
  • PART II. ESSAYS
  • Music as the Language of Psychological Realism: Tchaikovsky and Russian Art
  • Line of Succession: Three Productions of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty
  • Per Aspera Ad Astra: Symphonic Tradition in Tchaikovsky's First Suite for Orchestra
  • An Examination of Problem History in Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony
  • Tchaikovsky's Tatiana
  • Review of The Maid of Orleans [ 1899]
  • Tchaikovsky Androgyne: The Maid of Orleans
  • The Coronation of Alexander III
  • Tchaikovsky, Chekhov, and the Russian Elegy
  • Tchaikovsky and the Russian "Silver Age"
  • PART III. THEORETICAL WRITINGS
  • A Documentary Glance at Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov as Music Theorists
  • Index
  • List of Contributors