This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artist Victor Hartman, creator of the pictures that inspired Musorgsky's composition. A detailed synopsis takes the reader through each piece in turn, and subsequent chapters consider the musical language and structure. Michael Russ also describes the fate of the work in the hands of editors and performers and closes by surveying the best of the orchestrations, particularly Ravel's.
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This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artist Victor Hartman, creator of the pictures that inspired Musorgsky's composition.
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An excellent work on "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Musorgsky. In a few pages you will find the most important historical facts around this music, comments about different editions of the music score, both about the original manuscript for piano and orchestrations, and an easy to follow musical analysis of this masterpiece. Highly recommended for both music lovers and piano performers of "Pictures at an Exhibition".
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Modest Musorgsky (1839-81) composed Pictures at an Exhibition in 1874. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
octatonic scale, contextual emphasis, primary tone, pitch classes, leading note, coronation scene, piano version, harmonic language Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Boris Godunov, Victor Hartman, Musorgsky's Pictures, Arkady Kerzin, Great Gate, Sir Henry Wood New!
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Modest Musorgsky (1839-81) composed Pictures at an Exhibition in 1874. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
octatonic scale, contextual emphasis, primary tone, pitch classes, leading note, coronation scene, piano version, harmonic language Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Boris Godunov, Victor Hartman, Musorgsky's Pictures, Arkady Kerzin, Great Gate, Sir Henry Wood New!
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- Russian Philosophy (3 Volumes) by James M. Edie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- My Musical Life by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Music of Claude Debussy (Composers of the Twentieth Century Serie) by Richard S. Parks in Back Matter
- Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by William Drabkin in Front Matter
- Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music by Carl Dahlhaus in Back Matter
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