SERGEI PROKOFIEVS ALEXANDER NEVSKY (Oxford Keynotes)

BARTIG, Kevin

ISBN 10: 019026957X / ISBN 13: 9780190269579

Edité par Oxford University Press, 2017

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Synopsis :

Audiences have long enjoyed Sergei Prokofievs musical score for Sergei Eisensteins 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The historical epic cast a thirteenth-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic Knights as an allegory of contemporary Soviet strength in the face of Nazi warmongering. Prokofievs and Eisensteins work proved an enormous success, both as a collaboration of two of the twentieth centurys most prominent artists and as a means to bolster patriotism and national pride among Soviet audiences. Arranged as a cantata for concert performance, Prokofievs music for Alexander Nevsky music proved malleable, its meaning reconfigured to suit different circumstances and times. Author Kevin Bartig draws on previously unexamined archival materials to follow Prokofievs Alexander Nevsky from its inception through the present day. He considers the musics genesis as well as the surprisingly different ways it has engaged listeners over the past eighty years, from its beginnings as state propaganda in the 1930s to showpiece for high-fidelity recording in the 1950s to open-air concert favorite in the post-Soviet 1990s.

À propos de l'auteur: Kevin Bartig is Associate Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University and author of Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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Titre : SERGEI PROKOFIEVS ALEXANDER NEVSKY (Oxford ...
Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Date d'édition : 2017
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good