"It just reeks of Italianism" Traces of Italian Opera in A Life for the Tsar.
Helmers, Rutger
"It just reeks of Italianism" Traces of Italian Opera in A Life for the Tsar. / HELMERS, Rutger .-- Oxford : Oxford University Press, , 2010:
Music & Letters -- Vol. 91, núm. 3,August 2010, p. 376
RESUMEN: Although it is almost a truism nowadays to say that the style of Mikhail Glinka's operas is Italianate, little effort has yet been made to investigate this aspect of his work in any detail. A comparison of Glinka's A Life for the Tsar (1836) with contemporary Italian operas not only offers insights into his compositional methods, but also provides a more nuanced view of the construction of Russian national music by showing the complexity of Glinka's relation with contemporary bel canto opera.
"It just reeks of Italianism" Traces of Italian Opera in A Life for the Tsar. / HELMERS, Rutger .-- Oxford : Oxford University Press, , 2010:
Music & Letters -- Vol. 91, núm. 3,August 2010, p. 376
RESUMEN: Although it is almost a truism nowadays to say that the style of Mikhail Glinka's operas is Italianate, little effort has yet been made to investigate this aspect of his work in any detail. A comparison of Glinka's A Life for the Tsar (1836) with contemporary Italian operas not only offers insights into his compositional methods, but also provides a more nuanced view of the construction of Russian national music by showing the complexity of Glinka's relation with contemporary bel canto opera.