Table of Contents: Five operas and a symphony :

Main Author:	Gasparov, B.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
Subjects:	Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, > 1906-1975. Music > History and criticism > Russia Music > History and criticism > Soviet Union Opera > Russia. Music and literature

Table of Contents:

Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style
Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia
Eugene Onegin in the age of realism
Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style (Wagner and Musorgsky)
Lost in a symbolist city : multiple chronotopes in Chaikovsky's The queen of spades
A testimony : Shostakovich's fourth symphony and the end of romantic narrative
"Popolo di Pekino" : Musorgsky's Muscovy in early twentieth-century Europe
"Prima la musica, dopo le parole" : musical genealogy of a national anthem.