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9780521369763

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521369763

  • ISBN10:

    0521369762

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-11-02
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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. 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; Karamzin's history and Pushkin's drama as literary sources; Musorgsky's innovations as a librettist and as a theorist of the sung Russian word; 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 often-met errors in Musorgsky scholarship are clarified and corrected. A final chapter speculates on the opera's themes of political murder, guilt and legitimacy - so important to Russian literary and national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - and the new role the 'Boris plot' and its composer might come to play in more recent phases of Russian cultural life.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgments
Background
Tsar Boris in history
Musorgsky's literary sources, Karamzin and Pushkin
Narrative and musical synopsis of the opera
History of the composition, rejection, revision, and acceptance of Boris Godunov
A tale of two productions - St. Petersburg (1874-1882), Paris (1908)
Entr'acte
Boris and the censor: documents
The opera through the years: selected texts in criticism
Interpretation
The Boris libretto as a formal, literary, and historical problem
The music
Boris Godunov during the jubilee decade: the 1980s and beyond
Discography
Bibliography
Index
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