Caryl Emerson, a literary specialist, and Robert William Oldani, a music historian, take a new and comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, 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, 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 frequent errors in Musorgsky scholarship are clarified and corrected. The volume contains a selection of classic texts in criticism, numerous production photographs, a bibliography and discography.
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"Emerson and Oldani's portrait of Musorgsky as composer is broad, intelligent and convincing." The Russian Review
"...a glowing example of practical scholarship...It makes history and personalities live." B.W. High Performance Review
"The latest addition to a growing body of work on Modest Musorgsky makes a major contribution. The authors, veterans in the field, have approached Musorgsky's masterpiece from multiple directions, attempting to correct long-standing errors, to challenge widely held misinterpretations, and to draw together much current thinking on the opera. The resulting volume contains outstanding scholarship and provocative new insights delivered in an effective style....As a whole the book serves two functions. First, its fine scholarship contributes substantial new material to the Musorgsky literature. Second, it serves as a handbook to the opera for any involved with it: listeners, performers, producers, or critics. Indeed, it should be required background reading for all who face the perplexing choices among versions and editions or who wish to place this complex masterpiece in perspective." Gordon D. McQuere, Notes
"Complex yet rewarding in structure and intent, the book provides an admirable range of cultural-historical, musical and textological analysis and context, as well as performance and reception history....The volume features an excellent select biography and an interesting...discography." David Shengold, Slavic and East European Journal
"...a glowing example of practical scholarship...It makes history and personalities live." B.W. High Performance Review
"The latest addition to a growing body of work on Modest Musorgsky makes a major contribution. The authors, veterans in the field, have approached Musorgsky's masterpiece from multiple directions, attempting to correct long-standing errors, to challenge widely held misinterpretations, and to draw together much current thinking on the opera. The resulting volume contains outstanding scholarship and provocative new insights delivered in an effective style....As a whole the book serves two functions. First, its fine scholarship contributes substantial new material to the Musorgsky literature. Second, it serves as a handbook to the opera for any involved with it: listeners, performers, producers, or critics. Indeed, it should be required background reading for all who face the perplexing choices among versions and editions or who wish to place this complex masterpiece in perspective." Gordon D. McQuere, Notes
"Complex yet rewarding in structure and intent, the book provides an admirable range of cultural-historical, musical and textological analysis and context, as well as performance and reception history....The volume features an excellent select biography and an interesting...discography." David Shengold, Slavic and East European Journal
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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.
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The rise and fall of Boris Godunov is one of Russia's most popular plots-and to a certain extent, Western Europe's as well. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vysshey vlasti, coronation monologue, russkaya opera, holograph full score, sobranie sochineny, jubilee decade, reminiscence motive, cell scene, fountain scene, inn scene, hallucination scene, coronation scene, musical realism, recurring motives, full orchestral score, historical operas, reprint edn, first citation, second rejection, chiming clock, tonal plan, forza del destino, initial version, revue musicale Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Boris Godunov, Imperial Theaters, False Dmitry, The Marriage, Pushkin's Boris, Maryinsky Theater, Novodevichy Monastery, Ivan the Terrible, Boris Tale, Tsarevich Dmitry, Mighty Handful, The Maid of Pskov, Vladimir Stasov, Musorgsky's Boris, Time of Troubles, Dmitry of Uglich, Marina Mniszech, Serge Diaghilev, Song of the Parrot, The Stone Guest, Tsar Feodor, Chudov Monastery, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Pushkin, Basil's Cathedral New!
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The rise and fall of Boris Godunov is one of Russia's most popular plots-and to a certain extent, Western Europe's as well. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vysshey vlasti, coronation monologue, russkaya opera, holograph full score, sobranie sochineny, jubilee decade, reminiscence motive, cell scene, fountain scene, inn scene, hallucination scene, coronation scene, musical realism, recurring motives, full orchestral score, historical operas, reprint edn, first citation, second rejection, chiming clock, tonal plan, forza del destino, initial version, revue musicale Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Boris Godunov, Imperial Theaters, False Dmitry, The Marriage, Pushkin's Boris, Maryinsky Theater, Novodevichy Monastery, Ivan the Terrible, Boris Tale, Tsarevich Dmitry, Mighty Handful, The Maid of Pskov, Vladimir Stasov, Musorgsky's Boris, Time of Troubles, Dmitry of Uglich, Marina Mniszech, Serge Diaghilev, Song of the Parrot, The Stone Guest, Tsar Feodor, Chudov Monastery, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Pushkin, Basil's Cathedral New!
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- Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin on 69 pages
- Boris Godunov in Full Score (Rimsky-Korsakov Version) by Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky on 19 pages
- Don Carlos: Vocal Score by Walter Ducloux on 4 pages
- Boris Godunov (The Russian Series, V. 35) by R. G. Skrynnikov on 4 pages
- Boris Godounov by Moussorgski Modest in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Opera: A History in Documents by Piero Weiss on page 216
- Prokofiev--A Biography: From Russia to the West 1891-1935 by David Nice in Back Matter
- A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses (Opera Classics Library) (Opera Classics Library Series) by Burton D. Fisher on page 377
- Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture (Russian Literature and Thought Series) by Boris Gasparov in Back Matter
- The Life of Musorgsky (Musical Lives) by Caryl Emerson in Front Matter
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