Underground Music from the Former USSR
eBook - ePub

Underground Music from the Former USSR

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Underground Music from the Former USSR

About this book

What happened to contemporary music in the Soviet Union after Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev? This book is a valuable source of information on the composers of the generations following these three great innovators. It is a document of the hidden period of Russian music, of what happened after the denunciation of Shostakovich and Prokofiev by the Composers' Union. It contains profiles of the most interesting and innovative composers from Russia and the former Soviet republics, written by leading musicologists. Featured composers include Andrei Volkonsky, Philip Gershkovich, Sergei Slonimsky, Boris Tishchenko, Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Grabovsky , Nikolai Karetnikov , Alemdar Karamanov, Roman Ledenyov , Vyacheslav Artyomov , Faraj Karayev , Alexander Knaifel , Vladislav Shoot Alexander Vustin, Victor Ekimovksy , Alexander Raskatov , Sergei Pavlenko, Vladimir Tarnopolsy.

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Yes, you can access Underground Music from the Former USSR by Valeria Tsenova, Romela Kohanovskaya in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Music. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781134371655

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Andrei Volkonsky the initiator: a profile of his life and work
  8. Philip Gershkovich's search for the lost essence of music
  9. Sergei Slonimsky: the impetus to innovation and cultural synthesis
  10. Boris Tishchenko: striking spontaneity against a rationalistic background
  11. Valentin Silvestrov's lyrical universe
  12. Leonid Grabovsky: constants of style
  13. A drama of non-recognition: a profile of Nikolai Karetnikov's life and work
  14. Alemdar Karamanov: an outsider in Soviet music
  15. The labyrinths of Roman Ledenyov's creative work
  16. Vyacheslav Artyomov: in search of artistic truth
  17. Faraj Karayev: genug or not genug
  18. The magic of Alexander Knaifel's message
  19. Secrets of the moscow composition school in Vladislav Shoot's "pure music"
  20. Alexander Vustin: the battlefield is the soul
  21. A lyrical digression with commentary or, that 'notorious' Ekimovsky
  22. Alexander Raskatov's apologia
  23. Sergei Pavlenko: on the way to simplicity
  24. The "culturology" of Vladimir Tarnopolsky
  25. Index