Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

ISBN-13: 9780521641111 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 168 str.

Timothy L. Jackson; Julian Rushton

Opis

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 Pathetique'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 Pathetique'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.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. 'Pathetic' metaphors for sexuality and race, gambling and destiny; 2. Background and early reception; 3. Form and large-scale harmony; 4. The 'not-so-secret' program - a hypothesis; 5. Compositional genesis: the Six Romances Op. 73 and the Pathétique; 6. Deconstructing homosexual Grand Passion Pathétique; 7. Platonic postlude.