《Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov》是2006年Cambridge University Press出版的圖書，作者是Caryl Emerson、Robert William Oldani。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov
- 作者：Caryl Emerson、Robert William Oldani
- 出版社：Cambridge University Press
- ISBN：9780521369763
內容簡介,圖書目錄,
內容簡介
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.
圖書目錄
List of illustrations page
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgments
Part I. Background
1. Tsar Boris in history 3
2. Musorgsky’s literary sources, Karamzin and Pushkin 12
3. Narrative and musical synopsis of the opera 35
4. History of the composition, rejection, revision, and acceptance of Boris Godunov 67
5. A tale of two productions — St. Petersburg (1874-1882), Paris (1908) 91
Part II. Entr’acte
6. Boris and the censor: documents 127
7. The opera through the years: selected texts in criticism 134
Part III. Interpretation
8. The Boris libretto as a formal, literary, and historical problem 183
9. The music 225
10. Boris Godunov during the jubilee decade: the 1980s and beyond 278
Notes 289
Discography 317
Select bibliography 324
Index 333
