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OverviewAmong 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rita McAllister (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) , Christina Guillaumier (Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal College of Music, London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9780190670771ISBN 10: 0190670770 Pages: 544 Publication Date: 02 April 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsA compelling reassessment of Prokofiev's career from start to finish that raises a poignant question: When we hear his music, do we hear what he heard? The answers here, derived from painstaking archival research, make plain a stark truth: Prokofiev was the most harrowed composer of the 20th century, and his music bears the marks of compromise, resistance, and resilience. -- Simon Morrison, Professor Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University This rich and insightful collection is essential reading for anyone interested in Prokofiev and the world in which he lived. The essays in Rethinking Prokofiev offer new insight into unfamiliar aspects of Prokofiev's work and fresh and compelling looks at some more familiar ones. -- Kevin Bartig, Professor of Music, Michigan State University A compelling reassessment of Prokofiev's career from start to finish that raises a poignant question: When we hear his music, do we hear what he heard? The answers here, derived from painstaking archival research, make plain a stark truth: Prokofiev was the most harrowed composer of the 20th century, and his music bears the marks of compromise, resistance, and resilience. * Simon Morrison, Professor Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University * This rich and insightful collection is essential reading for anyone interested in Prokofiev and the world in which he lived. The essays in Rethinking Prokofiev offer new insight into unfamiliar aspects of Prokofiev's work and fresh and compelling looks at some more familiar ones. * Kevin Bartig, Professor of Music, Michigan State University * Author InformationRita 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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