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
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.
"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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