| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
Prokofiev and the Russian tradition / Marina Raku, Rita McAllister, Gabrielle Cornish -- Prokofiev and the development of Soviet composition in the 1920s and 1930s / Patrick Zuk -- Prokofiev and the Soviet symphony / Daniel Tooke -- "Monsieur Prokofieff": Prokofiev in the French context / Marina Frolova-Walker -- Prokofiev and Shostakovich: a two-way influence / Ivana Medić -- Sergei Prokofiev and Levon Atovmian: the story of a unique friendship / Nelly Kravetz, Rita McAllister, Laura Brown -- The sun-sounding Scythian: Prokofiev's musical interpretations of Russian Silver Age poetry / Polina Dimova -- Editing Prokofiev's Seven, They Are Seven: a case study / Nicolas Moron, Christina Guillaumier, Rita McAllister -- From film score to art music and back: Prokofiev's film music in the context of text-based genres / Julia Khait -- Semyon Kotko and War and Peace: Prokofiev and his collaborators / Terry Dean -- Staging Prkofiev's early ballets / Jane Pritchard -- Drama, theater, and gesture in the operas of Sergei Prokofiev / Christina Guillaumier -- Audiovisual montage in Ivan the Terrible: understanding Prokofiev's film score through Eisensteinian sound-image theory / Katya Ermolaeva -- "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...": an introduction to Prokofiev's thanatology / Natalia Savkina, Rita McAllister, Maria McMinn -- A genealogy of Prokofiev's musical gestures from the Juvenilia to the later piano works / Christina Guillaumier -- The five piano concertos: the pianist's perspective / Boris Berman -- "Things in themselves": a preliminary study of Prokofiev's thematic notebooks / Rita McAllister -- Toward an analysis of the music of Prokofiev's middle period / Konrad Harley -- Prokofiev's reception in the United Kingdom: a case study / Joseph Schultz -- Prokofiev, Soviet influence, and the music world in Stalinist Central Europe / David G. Tompkins -- Prokofiev in the popular consciousness / Peter Kupfer -- Prokofiev's problems - and ours / Richard Taruskin |
| Summary |
Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously. The turbulent times in which Prokofiev lived and the chronology of his travels-he left Russia in the wake of Revolution, and returned at the height of the Stalinist purges-have caused unusually polarized appraisals of his music. While individual, distinctive, and instantly recognizable, Prokofiev's music was also idiosyncratically tonal in an age whentonality was largely passe. Prokofiev's output therefore has been largely elusive and difficult to assess against contemporary trends. More than sixty years after the composer's death, editors Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier offer Rethinking Prokofiev as an assessment that redresses this0enigmatic composer's legacy. Often more political than artistic, these appraisals have depended not only upon the date of publication but also the geographical location of the writer. Commissioned from some of the most distinguished and rising scholars in the field, this collection highlights the background and context of Prokofiev's work. Contributors delve into the composer's relationship to nineteenth-century Russian traditions, Silver-Age and Symbolist composers and poets, the culture of Paris in the 1920s and '30s, and to his later Soviet colleagues and younger contemporaries. They also investigate his reception in the West, his return to Russia, and the effect of hismusic on contemporary popular culture. Still, the main focus of the book is on the music itself: his early, experimental piano and vocal works, as well as his piano concertos, operas, film scores, early ballets, and late symphonies |
| Notes |
"About the companion website"--Page xvii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 17, 2020) |
| Subject |
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 |
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Composers -- Russia -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation
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Composers
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Russia
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McAllister, Rita, editor
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Guillaumier, Christina, editor
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| ISBN |
9780190670795 |
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0190670797 |
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9780190670788 |
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0190670789 |
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