Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Name: Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
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ISBN: 9780521386074

ISBN-10: 0521386071

ISBN-13: 9780521386074

Edition: 1992

Authors: Michael Russ, Julian Rushton

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Description:

This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artist Victor Hartman, creator of the pictures that inspired Musorgsky's composition. A detailed synopsis takes the reader through each piece in turn, and subsequent chapters consider the musical language and structure. Michael Russ also describes the fate of the work in the hands of editors and performers and closes by surveying the best of the orchestrations, particularly Ravel's.

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.54" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Preface



Pictures at an Exhibition and nineteenth-century music



Musorgsky and Hartman



Manuscript, publication and performance



Looking at Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition



Synopsis



The musical language of Pictures at an Exhibition



Harmony, scales, tonality and voice-leading in Pictures at an Exhibition



Orchestrations and transcriptions of Pictures at an Exhibition


Appendix: list of principal transcriptions and orchestrations


Notes


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