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Symphonic Etudes
Boris Asafyev
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Description for Symphonic Etudes
Paperback. This is a full translation, with introduction and annotations, of Symphonic Etudes, first published in 1922 by the eminent twentieth-century scholar and critic Boris Asafyev. Each chapter focuses on one or more operas and ballets by Russian composers, viewed from the perspectives of musical style and psychology. Translator(s): Haas, David. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASDL; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
When Boris Asafyev's first edition of Symphonic Etudes appeared in 1922, it was recognized as the most extensive, insightful, and sophisticated text on Russian opera and ballet yet written. The second edition in 1970 was accepted as a classic of music criticism and has since functioned as a foundation for Russian nineteenth-century scholarship. Now this important book is available in English, its text and footnotes fully translated and annotated by David Haas. Symphonic Etudes: Portraits of Russian Operas and Ballets is divided into 19 essays, most of which were originally written for program booklets distributed during the 1921-22 season ... Read more
When Boris Asafyev's first edition of Symphonic Etudes appeared in 1922, it was recognized as the most extensive, insightful, and sophisticated text on Russian opera and ballet yet written. The second edition in 1970 was accepted as a classic of music criticism and has since functioned as a foundation for Russian nineteenth-century scholarship. Now this important book is available in English, its text and footnotes fully translated and annotated by David Haas. Symphonic Etudes: Portraits of Russian Operas and Ballets is divided into 19 essays, most of which were originally written for program booklets distributed during the 1921-22 season ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810860308
SKU
V9780810860308
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99-15
About Boris Asafyev
David Haas is professor of music at the University of Georgia and the author of Leningrad's Modernists: Studies in Composition and Musical Thought, 1917-1932 (Peter Lang, 1998).
Reviews for Symphonic Etudes
Exhibits a vibrant criticism...Users will appreciate a deeper perspective of program notes from this volume.
American Reference Books Annual, March 2008
Asafev and Haas provide many intruguing, thematically interconnected insights into 'golden age' Russian opera.
Opera News Online, February 2009
Symphonic Etudes is a beautiful, yet melancholy elegy.
Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2009 ... Read more
American Reference Books Annual, March 2008
Asafev and Haas provide many intruguing, thematically interconnected insights into 'golden age' Russian opera.
Opera News Online, February 2009
Symphonic Etudes is a beautiful, yet melancholy elegy.
Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2009 ... Read more