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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “elena dubinets”
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  • Russian Composers Abroad

    How They Left, Stayed, Returned

    by Elena Dubinets ...
    Series series East European Music Studies
    As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes.Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these émigrés, especially those who left from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic identities played out in their music. Elena Dubinets provides a journey through the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Unpredictable Encounters

    Reconsidering Russian Music

    by Kevin Bartig, Gabrielle Cornish, Elena Dubinets, Marina Frolova-Walker, Liudmila Kovnatskaya, Olga Manulkina, Klára Móricz, Inna Naroditskaya ...
    Series series East European Music Studies
    Music has always been profoundly transnational, transcending language barriers and crossing borders in ways that few other cultural artifacts can. In Unpredictable Encounters, leading scholars from around the world examine how Russia's musical culture has undergone this process, interrogating its engagement with other cultures from the 19th century to the present.Dedicated to the memory of the ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

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  • Shostakovich

    A Life

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    For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary documents: Shostakovich's many letters, concert programs and reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of his contemporaries. An indefatigable worker, he wrote his arresting music despite deprivations during the Nazi invasion and constant ... Read more

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  • Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend

    by Elizabeth Wilson ...
    Published to coincide with Rostropovich's 80th birthday celebrationsMstislav Rostropovich, internationally recognised as one of the world's finest cellists and musicians, has always maintained that teaching is an important responsibility for great artists. Before his emigration in 1974 from Russia to the West, Rostropovich taught several generations of the brightest Russian talents - as Professor ... Read more

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  • The War on Music

    Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

    by John Mauceri ...
    A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past centuryThis book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.Probing why so few ... Read more

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  • The People's Artist

    Prokofiev's Soviet Years

    by Simon Morrison ...
    Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries. Indeed, Morrison was the first scholar to gain access to the composer's sealed files in ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt

    Edited by Andrew Shenton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, has been used in award-winning films, and pieces such as Für Alina and Spiegel im Siegel have become ... Read more

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  • Jean Sibelius and His World

    Edited by Daniel M. Grimley ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all timePerhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was ... Read more

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  • A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California

    by Dorothy Lamb Crawford ...
    This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influence of sixteen performers, fourteen composers, and one opera stage director, who joined this immense migration beginning in the 1930s. Some in this ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Bartók

    Edited by Amanda Bayley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion is an accessible guide to Bartók's music and is an ideal introduction to the composer for students, performers and concert-goers. Part I of the book sets out the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's interest in and research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, ... Read more

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  • On Russian Music

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between. Some of these pieces, like the ones on Chaikovsky's alleged suicide and on the interpretation of ... Read more

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