Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition

“This volume contains so much valuable material: the archival research, the subtle contextual connections, and countless insights, whether musical, poetic, historical, or biographical. The book’s impact should extend well beyond musicology, and it deserves to be considered one of the magisterial studies of the Russian Silver Age.”—Marina Frolova-Walker, author of Stalin’s Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics

List of contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Dates

Introduction
1 • Decadence: Tchaikovsky at the Edge
Interlude • Symbolism’s Nutcracker

2 • Syncretism: Rimsky-Korsakov and Belsky
Interlude • Klara Milich

3 • Theurgy: Scriabin and the Impossible
Interlude • Another Church Musician Writes an Opera

4 • Mimesis: Prokofiev’s Demons
Conclusion

Notes
Index

About the author

Simon Morrison is Professor of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. He is the author of Bolshoi Confidential, The People's Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years, and Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev.

Summary

Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Morrison's influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. This wholly revised edition is both up-to-date and revelatory.

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“Morrison’s book has become a standard reading-list item and the accepted starting point for the researches of a new generation of graduate students. Ideas that were striking and fresh [when first published] have become common currency—a tribute to the book’s success.”

Product details

• Authors: Simon Morrison, Simon A. Morrison, Morrison Simon
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780520305465
• ISBN: 978-0-520-30546-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Russia, European History, MUSIC / History & Criticism, ART / European, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, History of art / art & design styles, Opera, History of Art, Literary studies: general, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, HISTORY / Russia / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet