Petrushka
Title | Petrushka PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Wachtel |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1998-05-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0810115662 |
In this groundbreaking book, four distinguished scholars offer a detailed exploration of the ballet Petrushka, which premiered in Paris in 1911 and became one of the most important and influential theatrical works of the modernist period. The first book to study every level of a complex theatrical production, this is a work unlike any other in Russian or theater studies. "The book is a joy to read." --Slavic Review
Petrushka
Title | Petrushka PDF eBook |
Author | Igor Stravinsky |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780486408705 |
Twentieth-century masterpiece, brilliantly orchestrated, with Russian folksong and new, striking harmonies. General Note. Stage Directions. Instrumentation. All French and English materials newly translated.
Petrushka : [burlesque scenes in 4 tableaux]
Title | Petrushka : [burlesque scenes in 4 tableaux] PDF eBook |
Author | Igor Stravinsky |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486256804 |
Stravinsky's score for the ballet "Petrushka, " commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, was first performed in Paris in 1911 and was an immediate sensation with the public and the critics. It followed by a year the great success of his score for "The Firebird, " also produced by the Ballets Russes, and it confirmed Stravinsky's reputation as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers. The ballet had begun in Stravinsky's mind as a "picture of a puppet suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios." Soon Diaghilev had convinced the young composer to turn the work into a ballet score. Benois was chosen to be his collaborator in the libretto, Fokine and Nijinsky became involved, and the bizarre tale of three dancing puppets Petrushka (a folk character in Russian lore), the Ballerina, and the Moor, brought to life in a tragic tale of love would soon become one of the most acclaimed and performed of ballet masterpieces. Brilliantly orchestrated, filled with Russian folksong as well as new and striking harmonies, alternately poignant and splendidly imposing, the score of "Petrushka" continues to be a popular subject for the study of tonal language and orchestration. This edition is an unabridged republication of the original edition published in 1912 by Edition Russe de Musique in Berlin. Printed on fine paper, sturdily bound, yet remarkably inexpensive, it offers musical scholars, musical performers, and music lovers a lifetime of pleasurable study and enjoyment of one of the most popular and acclaimed musical works of the twentieth century."
The Art of Ballets Russes
Title | The Art of Ballets Russes PDF eBook |
Author | Exhibition Design, Dance and Music of the Ballets Russes 1909 - 1929 (1997 - 1998, Hartford, Conn. u.a.) |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0300074840 |
Præsentation af en række balletter illustreret med fotografier og tegninger af kostumer og kulisser, ordnet alfabetisk efter designeren
Petrushka
Title | Petrushka PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Ashton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780812056716 |
Cafe Petrushka
Title | Cafe Petrushka PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Art, Australian |
ISBN |
Petrushka and the Dancer
Title | Petrushka and the Dancer PDF eBook |
Author | John Cowper Powys |
Publisher | Manchester : Carcanet Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press ; Paris : Alyscamps Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The diary entries of John Cowper Powys begin in America, where Powys had just retired after 25 years of freelance lecturing, and end in Wales, with the completion of Owen Glendower. His day-to-day preoccupations - from the aesthetic to the anatomical - are evident here, along with reflections on his works in progress (numerous essays on philosophy, religion and literature, and four novels including A Glastonbury Romance), encounters with members of his family, and detailed observations of rural life in upstate New York, in the West Country, and in Wales. The diary also charts Powys's life with Phyllis Playter, to form her biography as well as his autobiography.