Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker
Wiley, Roland John
Clarendon Press. 1991Ficha técnica
- EAN: 9780198162490
- ISBN: 978-0-19-816249-0
- Editorial: Clarendon Press
- Fecha de edición: 1991
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Dimensiones: 15,5x23
- Idioma: Inglés
- Nº páginas: 446
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Tchaikovsky's Ballets combines analysis of the music of Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty , and Nutcracker with a description based on rare and not easily accessible documents of the first productions of these works in imperial Russia. Essential background concerning the ballet audience, the collaboration of composer and ballet-master, and Moscow in the 1860s leads into an account of the first production of Swan Lake in 1877. A discussion of the theatre reforms initiated by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Director of the Imperial Theatres and Tchaikovsky's patron, prepares us for a study of the still-famous 1890 production of Sleeping Beauty , Tchaikovsky's first collaboration with the choreographer Marius Petipa. Professor Wiley then explains how Nutcracker , which followed two years after Sleeping Beauty , was seen by its producers and audiences in a much less favourable light in 1882 than it is now. The final chapter discusses the celebrated revival of Swan Lake in 1985 by Petipa and Leve Ivanov.
CONTENIDO:
Preface
List of illustrations
Introduction: some traditions
-Composer and balletmaster
-The ballet audience
-"La Bayadère"
1. "Swan Lake" in Moscow
-The city
-The libretto
-Composition and collaboration
-Cast and production
2. The music of "Swan Lake"
3. St. Petersburg
-Vsevolozhsky and theatre reform
-Negotiations between the Imperial Theatres and Tchaikovsky
-Vsevolozhsky, Petipa, Tchaikovsky
4. The music of "Sleeping Beauty"
-Thematic unity
-Rhythm and sonority
-Tchaikovsky's transformation of the classical variation
-Tonality
-The music of act III
5. "Sleeping Beauty": the first production
-The music of "Sleeping Beauty" as performed in the Imperial Theatres
-Petipa's work on "Sleeping Beauty"
-The first production
6. "Nutcracker"
7. "Swan Lake" in St. Petersburg
Postlude
Notes
Appendix A. Scenarios of Tchaikovsky's ballets translated from the first editions of their librettos
Appendix B. Affiche of the first performance of "Swan Lake" in English translation
Appendix C. Tchaikovsky's harmony
Appendix D. Marius Petipa's scenarios for "Sleeping Beauty" and "Nutcracker"
Appendix E. Metronomic markings in the holograph score of "Sleeping Beauty"
Appendix F. Present order of materials in the choreographic notation of "Nutcracker"
Appendix G. The Waltz of the Snowflakes from "Nutcracker"
Appendix H. The performace scores of "Sleeping Beauty" and "Swan Lake" in St. Petersburg
Select bibliography
Index