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Janáček studies

This is the first major book about the music of the Czech composer Leos Janácek, one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays cover a range of topics relating to opera, symphonic poem, instrumental music, cultural context, reception, and Janácek as music theorist and analyst.
Print Book, English, 2006
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521027724, 0521027721
1080800891
Expressive sources and resources in Janáček's musical language / Robin Holloway
"Nothing but pranks and puns" : Janáček's solo piano music / Thomas Adès
Narrative in Janáček's symphonic poems / Hugh MacDonald
Evasive realism : narrative construction in Dostoyevsky's and Janáček's From the house of the dead / Geoffrey Chew and Robert Vilain
Direct discourse and speech melody in Janáček's operas / Miloš Štědroň
Kundera's eternal present and Janáček's ancient gypsy / Michael Beckerman
Janáček's folk settings and the "Vixen" / Zdeněk Skoumal
Janáček's operas in Australia and New Zealand : a performance history / Adrienne Simpson
Janáček's Moravian publishers / Nigel Simeone
Janáček, musical analysis, and Debussy's Jeux de vagues / Paul Wingfield
Originally published: 1999