Five operas and a symphony word and music in Russian culture - Gasparov, B.; ebrary, Inc. (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005)
Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style -- Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia -- Eugene Onegin in the age of realism -- Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style (Wagner and Musorgsky) -- Lost in a symbolist city : multiple chronotypes in Chaikovsky's The queen of spades -- A testimony : Shostakovich's Fourth symphony and the end of Romantic narrative -- "Popolo di Pekino" : Musorgsky's Muscovy in early twentieth-century Europe -- "Prima la musica, poi le parole" : musical genealogy of a national anthem.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-254) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: d; Music and literature; Music -- Russia -- History and criticism; Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism; Opera -- Russia; Electronic books