Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Pictures at an Exhibition and nineteenth-century music; 2. Musorgsky and Hartman; 3. Manuscript, publication and performance; 4. Looking at Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition; 5. Synopsis; 6. The musical language of Pictures at an Exhibition; 7. Harmony, scales, tonality and voice-leading in Pictures at an Exhibition; 8. Orchestrations and transcriptions of Pictures at an Exhibition; Appendix: list of principal transcriptions and orchestrations; Notes; Select bibliography.

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An informative and wide ranging guide which places Musorgsky's original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life.