Experiencing Tchaikovsky - A Listener''s Companion

Informationen zum Autor David Schroeder is professor emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and he holds a doctorate from Cambridge University. He is the author of major studies on Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, film music, and opera. His most recent work is Experiencing Mozart: A Listener's Companion (Scarecrow Press 2013). Klappentext In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener’s Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional views of Tchaikovsky to explore the dramatic impact of his music by walking readers through the remarkable range of works by this great Russian composer. Zusammenfassung In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener’s Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional views of Tchaikovsky to explore the dramatic impact of his music by walking readers through the remarkable range of works by this great Russian composer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Foreword Introduction List of Abbreviations Timeline Chapter 1: Symphonic Poems, Shakespeare, and Music with Meaning Chapter 2: A Little Help from my Friends: Concertos Chapter 3: For the Love of Mozart: Chamber Music, Suites, and Serenades Chapter 4: Ballet's New Way: Swan Lake Chapter 5: Pushkin's Gentle Mockery, Tchaikovsky's Immoderate Ardor: Eugene Onegin Chapter 6: Symphony as Opera Chapter 7: Sorcery, Caprice, Blindness, Saints, and Stacked Decks: More Operas Chapter 8: Two Fairytale Ballets Chapter 9: Above and Beyond: From His Death to the Present Glossary Selected Reading Selected Listening Index About the Author

Product details

• Authors: David Schroeder, David E. Schroeder, Schroeder David
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2015
• EAN: 9781442232990
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3299-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Listener's Companion; Listener's Companion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, baroque, Music reviews & criticism, Composers and songwriters, Music reviews and criticism, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)