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Rethinking Prokofiev
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Table of 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

About the Author

Rita McAllister is a composer, pianist, educationalist, and writer on music. She holds a Research Chair at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge: her doctoral thesis was on the operas of Sergei Prokofiev. She has published extensively on Prokofiev and on many other aspects of Russian and Soviet music in journals, magazines, and music encyclopedias, and recently re-constructed the first
version of Prokofiev's War and Peace, which was premièred in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Rostov-on-Don.

Christina Guillaumier is a musicologist, pianist, and writer on music. She is Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music (London) and is a member of the Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. A graduate of the Universities of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Oxford, her research has been awarded several grants and fellowships. She is a published author on Russian music, including Prokofiev's childhood
compositions, his operas, and his early orchestral music.

Reviews

"This book is an important contribution to the literature on Prokofiev...Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- D. Arnold, University of North Texas, CHOICE
"It deserves a place in all serious libraries and on the shelves of music lovers everywhere." -- Arnold McMillin, Slavonic and East European Review
"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 both geography and professional focus; a refreshing number of the authors are practicing musicians ... There's a useful glossary of fundamental cultural and musical terms, but biographical identifications are in the texts. A foreword points readers to a website, on which
more musical examples, illustrations and substantial appendices will appear -- a responsible, realistic scholarly model." -- David Shengold, Opera News
"A compelling reassessment of Prokofiev's career from start to finish that raises a poignant question: When we hear his music, do we hear what he heard? The answers here, derived from painstaking archival research, make plain a stark truth: Prokofiev was the most harrowed composer of the 20th century, and his music bears the marks of compromise, resistance, and resilience." -- Simon Morrison, Professor Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton
University
"This rich and insightful collection is essential reading for anyone interested in Prokofiev and the world in which he lived. The essays in Rethinking Prokofiev offer new insight into unfamiliar aspects of Prokofiev's work and fresh and compelling looks at some more familiar ones." -- Kevin Bartig, Professor of Music, Michigan State University

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