Tchaikovsky : symphony no. 6 pathetique / Timothy L. Jackson.
By: Jackson, Timothy L
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xi, 154 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0521646766 .Subject(s): Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893DDC classification: 784.2184
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 784.2184 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00103292 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Tchaikovsky's final symphony has fascinated generations of music lovers since its first performance just over a century ago. Professor Jackson explores sensitively and without prejudice the question of the Pathétique's program and its relation to Tchaikovsky's homosexuality and death. The book covers the work's conception, genesis, and reception, and presents an in-depth analysis of its remarkable formal structure. The reception chapter investigates the Pathétique's impact on Tchaikovsky's younger contemporaries as well as its political interpretation in the twentieth century, especially its transformation into a cultural icon of the Third Reich.
Includes bibliography and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of plates (p. viii)
- Preface (p. ix)
- 1 "Pathetic" metaphors for sexuality and race, gambling and destiny (p. 1)
- 2 Background and early reception (p. 13)
- 3 Form and large-scale harmony (p. 22)
- 4 The "not-so-secret" program--a hypothesis (p. 36)
- 5 Compositional genesis: the Six Romances Op. 73 and the Pathetique (p. 74)
- 6 Deconstructing homosexual grande passion pathetique (p. 83)
- 7 Platonic postlude (p. 114)
- Appendices (p. 116)
- Notes (p. 122)
- Select bibliography (p. 147)
- Index (p. 151)