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Uncommon Lyricisms: Modest Musorgsky's Early Songs

Uncommon Lyricisms: Modest Musorgsky's Early Songs

Gunter, Sheila D.

Paperback

General Music

ISBN10: 1511621249
ISBN13: 9781511621243
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 27 2015
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Modest Musorgsky is most often considered a composer of remarkable opera, symphonic and piano works. He is not as well known, however, particularly outside his native Russia, for his art songs, possibly excepting his song, The Song of the Flea, and his song cycles, Songs and Dances of Death and The Nursery. This book aims to present to the reader six of Musorgsky's early songs (1857-1867) that reveal his striking mastery of the smaller form of the art song. Furthermore, the brilliant ways in which Musorgsky structures and seems to conjure each song's lyrical veins, which are often poetically astounding, are argued to possess literary and musical images and expressions that, at the very least, approach the achievements of the great song composers, such as Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Verdi, Wagner and Musorgsky's compatriots, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.

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