Janacek Studies (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Expressive sources and resources in Janacek's musical language Robin Holloway; 2. 'Nothing but pranks and puns': Janacek's solo piano music Thomas Ades; 3. Narrative in Janacek's symphonic poems Hugh Macdonald; 4. Evasive realism: narrative construction in Dostoyevsky's and Janacek's From the House of the Dead Geoffrey Chew and Robert Vilain; 5. Direct discourse and speech melody in Janacek's operas Milos Stedron; 6. Kundera's eternal present and Janacek's ancient Gypsy Michael Beckerman; 7. Janacek's folk settings and the Vixen Zdenek Skoumal; 8. Janacek's operas in Australia and New Zealand: a performance history Adrienne Simpson; 9. Janacek's Moravian publishers Nigel Simeone; 10. Janacek, musical analysis, and Debussy's 'Jeux de vagues' Paul Wingfield; Index.