About this title.
This short, entertaining book, will appeal to music lovers of any age but is especially suitable for use in musical education and as a reading tool to demonstrate the use of language to describe the emotions evoked by music and images which can be seen only by the mind’s eye. Teachers say it suggests many exercises and projects and works especially well in bringing together music, drama, stagecraft, language and art. Based on fact, and historically accurate, it is written in Modest Mussorgsky’s own voice as he guides a young companion around the picture exhibition held in honour of his friend Viktor Hartman at the Academy of Artists in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1874. It was this exhibition which inspired Mussorgsky to write the suite of music he called 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. The book is written to be read or delivered in time with the playing of the music. The duration of each section — including each of the promenades — is about the same as the musical piece it describes. Indeed, important events in the narrative often intersect with appropriate moments in the music to bring the unseen pictures to life. It is indeed a unique meeting of art, music and literature.
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Robert Philip Bolton is one of PublishMe's biggest selling authors. He has been writing professionally most of his adult life specialising in short stories about New Zealand and New Zealanders. He has published five books all of which are published and available here; he is now working on a new novel. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1945 and has travelled extensively throughout New Zealand, Australia, Britain (where he lived and worked), Europe, Asia and Japan, as well as the United States where he worked in Atlanta, Georgia. The father of two adult children, he lives with his wife, Kath, (also a writer) in Greenlane, Auckland.
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