Per Aspera Ad Astra: Symphonic Tradition in Tchaikovsky's First Suite for Orchestra

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions x
5. Preface xi
6. PART I. BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS
7. Tchaikovsky: A Life Reconsidered 3
8. Unknown Tchaikovsky: A Reconstruction of Previously Censored Letters to His Brothers (1875-1879) 55
9. PART II. ESSAYS
10. Music as the Language of Psychological Realism: Tchaikovsky and Russian Art 99
11. Line of Succession: Three Productions of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty 145
12. Per Aspera Ad Astra: Symphonic Tradition in Tchaikovsky's First Suite for Orchestra 163
13. An Examination of Problem History in Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony 197
14. Tchaikovsky's Tatiana 216
15. Review of The Maid of Orleans [ 1899] 234
16. Tchaikovsky Androgyne: The Maid of Orleans 239
17. The Coronation of Alexander III 277
18. Tchaikovsky, Chekhov, and the Russian Elegy 300
19. Tchaikovsky and the Russian "Silver Age" 319
20. PART III. THEORETICAL WRITINGS
21. A Documentary Glance at Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov as Music Theorists 333
22. Index 355
23. List of Contributors 367