Rethinking Prokofiev
- Editor: Guillaumier, Christina
- Editor: McAllister, Rita
the editors set out to complicate and contextualize a general perception of the composer as an ambition-compromised victim of Soviet power. The volume's list of contributors ranges in terms of... — More…
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Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- A Note on Archival Sources
- Rita McAllister
- Preface
- Simon Morrison
- Introduction: Why Re-Assess Prokofiev?
- Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier
- Part I Prokofiev and the Russian Models
- 1 Prokofiev and the Russian Tradition
- Marina Raku
- 2 Prokofiev and the Development of Soviet Composition in the 1920s and 1930s
- Patrick Zuk
- 3 Prokofiev and the Soviet Symphony
- Daniel Tooke
- Part II Prokofiev and his Contemporaries
- 4 'Monsieur Prokofieff': Prokofiev in the French Context
- Marina Frolova-Walker
- 5 Prokofiev and Shostakovich: A Two-Way Influence
- Ivana Medic
- 6 Prokofiev and Atovmian: The Story of a Unique Friendship
- Nelly Kravetz
- Part III Music and Text: Prokofiev's Relationship with his Literary Sources
- 7 The Sun-Sounding Scythian: Prokofiev's Musical Interpretation of Russian Silver-Age Poetry
- Polina Dimova
- 8 Editing Prokofiev's Seven, they are Seven: A Case Study
- Nicolas Moron
- 9 From Film Score to Art Music and Back: Prokofiev's Film Music in the Context of Text-Based Genres
- Julia Khait
- 10 Semyon Kotko and War and Peace: Prokofiev and His Collaborators
- Terry Dean
- Part IV Drama and Gesture
- 11 Staging Prokofiev's Early Ballet
- Jane Pritchard
- 12 Drama, Theatre and Gesture in the Operas of Prokofiev
- Christina Guillaumier
- 13 Audio-Visual Montage in Ivan the Terrible: Understanding Prokofiev's Film Score through Eisensteinian Sound Theory
- Katya Ermolaeva
- 14 'Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death..': An Introduction to Prokofiev's Thanatology
- Natalia Savkina
- Part V Identity and Structure
- 15 A Genealogy of Prokofiev's Musical Gestures from the Juvenilia to the Later Piano Works
- Christina Guillaumier
- 16 The Five Piano Concertos: The Pianist's Perspective
- Boris Berman
- 17 'Things in Themselves': An Analytical Study of Prokofiev's Music Notebooks
- Rita McAllister
- 18 Towards an Analysis of Prokofiev's Middle Period Works
- Konrad Harley
- Part VI The Reception and After-Life of the Music
- 19 Prokofiev's Reception in the United Kingdom: A Case Study
- Joseph Schultz
- 20 Prokofiev, Soviet Influence, and the Music World in Stalinist Central Europe
- David G. Tompkins
- 21 Prokofiev in the Popular Consciousness
- Peter Kupfer
- 22 Prokofiev's Problems - and Ours
- Richard Taruskin
- Glossary
- Index