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Tchaikovsky''s Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations.

Publication: Notes
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1008 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Tchaikovsky''s Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
By Richard Sylvester. (Russian Music Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. [xvi, 349 p. ISBN 0-253-34041-1. $59.95.] Discography, bibliography, indexes, compact disc.

When one considers Tchaikovsky, the immediate association is with ballet and symphonic music; in truth, the composer wrote 103 songs with lyrics by both well-known and unfamiliar poets. Author Richard Sylvester has collected these songs, translated the lyrics from the original Russian, transliterated the Cyrillic characters into letters of the Latin alphabet, and provided fascinating historical background for each. A compact disc containing twenty-two songs performed by notable singers is an added bonus. The result is an unexpected, long-overdue, and welcome labor of love, imbued with intelligent scholarship.

The book is as meticulously organized as Sylvester's scholarship. A preface delineates the book's purpose and text presentation, and "Transcription from Cyrillic" offers an intriguing and detailed perspective of the...



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