Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov
Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations
- Author: Emerson, Caryl
- Author: Oldani, Robert William
The latest addition to a growing body of work on Modest Musorgsky makes a major contribution. The authors, veterans in the field, have approached Musorgsky's masterpiece from multiple directions,... — More…
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Part I . Background:
- 1. Tsar Boris in history
- 2. Musorgsky's literary sources, Karamzin and Pushkin
- 3. Narrative and musical synopsis of the opera
- 4. History of the composition, rejection, revision, and acceptance of Boris Godunov
- 5. A tale of two productions - St. Petersburg (1874-1882), Paris (1908)
- Part II . Entr'acte:
- 6. Boris and the censor: documents
- 7. The opera through the years: selected texts in criticism
- Part III . Interpretation:
- 8. The Boris libretto as a formal, literary, and historical problem
- 9. The music
- 10. Boris Godunov during the jubilee decade: the 1980s and beyond
- Discography
- Bibliography
- Index.