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Experiencing Tchaikovsky : a listener's companion / David Schroeder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schroeder, David P., 1946- author.
- Series:
- Listener's companion.
- Listener's Companion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional views of Tchaikovsky to explore the dramatic impact of his music by walking readers through the remarkable range of works by this great Russian composer.
- Contents:
- Symphonic poems, Shakespeare, and music with meaning
- A little help from my friends : concertos
- For the love of Mozart : chamber music, suites, and serenades
- Ballet's new way : Swan Lake
- Pushkin's gentle mockery, Tchaikovsky's immoderate ardor : Eugene Onegin
- Symphony as opera
- Sorcery, caprice, blindness, saints, and stacked decks : more operas
- Two fairy-tale ballets
- Above and beyond : from his death to the present.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4422-3300-1
- OCLC:
- 903489422
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