Rethinking Prokofiev
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-067076-4 (ISBN)
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 when tonality was largely passé. 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 this enigmatic 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 his music 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. Through an empirical examination of his characteristic harmonies, melodies, cadences, and musical gestures-and through an analysis of the newly uncovered contents of his sketch-books-contributors reveal much of what makes Prokofiev an idiosyncratic genius and his music intriguing, often dramatic, and almost always beguiling.
Rita McAllister is a composer, pianist, educationalist, and writer on music. She holds a Research Chair at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge: her doctoral thesis was on the operas of Sergei Prokofiev. She has published extensively on Prokofiev and on many other aspects of Russian and Soviet music in journals, magazines, and music encyclopedias, and recently re-constructed the first version of Prokofiev's War and Peace, which was premièred in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Rostov-on-Don. Christina Guillaumier is a musicologist, pianist, and writer on music. She is Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music (London) and is a member of the Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. A graduate of the Universities of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Oxford, her research has been awarded several grants and fellowships. She is a published author on Russian music, including Prokofiev's childhood compositions, his operas, and his early orchestral music.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website
A Note on Archival Sources
Rita McAllister
Preface
Simon Morrison
Introduction: Why Re-Assess Prokofiev?
Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier
Part I Prokofiev and the Russian Models
1 Prokofiev and the Russian Tradition
Marina Raku
2 Prokofiev and the Development of Soviet Composition in the 1920s and 1930s
Patrick Zuk
3 Prokofiev and the Soviet Symphony
Daniel Tooke
Part II Prokofiev and his Contemporaries
4 'Monsieur Prokofieff': Prokofiev in the French Context
Marina Frolova-Walker
5 Prokofiev and Shostakovich: A Two-Way Influence
Ivana Medic
6 Prokofiev and Atovmian: The Story of a Unique Friendship
Nelly Kravetz
Part III Music and Text: Prokofiev's Relationship with his Literary Sources
7 The Sun-Sounding Scythian: Prokofiev's Musical Interpretation of Russian Silver-Age Poetry
Polina Dimova
8 Editing Prokofiev's Seven, they are Seven: A Case Study
Nicolas Moron
9 From Film Score to Art Music and Back: Prokofiev's Film Music in the Context of Text-Based Genres
Julia Khait
10 Semyon Kotko and War and Peace: Prokofiev and His Collaborators
Terry Dean
Part IV Drama and Gesture
11 Staging Prokofiev's Early Ballet
Jane Pritchard
12 Drama, Theatre and Gesture in the Operas of Prokofiev
Christina Guillaumier
13 Audio-Visual Montage in Ivan the Terrible: Understanding Prokofiev's Film Score through Eisensteinian Sound Theory
Katya Ermolaeva
14 'Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death..': An Introduction to Prokofiev's Thanatology
Natalia Savkina
Part V Identity and Structure
15 A Genealogy of Prokofiev's Musical Gestures from the Juvenilia to the Later Piano Works
Christina Guillaumier
16 The Five Piano Concertos: The Pianist's Perspective
Boris Berman
17 'Things in Themselves': An Analytical Study of Prokofiev's Music Notebooks
Rita McAllister
18 Towards an Analysis of Prokofiev's Middle Period Works
Konrad Harley
Part VI The Reception and After-Life of the Music
19 Prokofiev's Reception in the United Kingdom: A Case Study
Joseph Schultz
20 Prokofiev, Soviet Influence, and the Music World in Stalinist Central Europe
David G. Tompkins
21 Prokofiev in the Popular Consciousness
Peter Kupfer
22 Prokofiev's Problems - and Ours
Richard Taruskin
Glossary
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.02.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 38 photographs, 23 music examples and tables |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 244 x 162 mm |
| Gewicht | 873 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-067076-2 / 0190670762 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-067076-4 / 9780190670764 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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