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Film, Video Rewriting Rachmaninoff: Transcriptions and Revisions in the Library's Collections

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Title

  • Rewriting Rachmaninoff: Transcriptions and Revisions in the Library's Collections

Summary

  • David Plylar explores the Sergei Rachmaninoff collections focusing on the composer's acts of "rewriting." These includes samples of Rachmaninoff's sketches, editing marks, revisions, ossia passages, transcriptions of his own works and transcriptions of others. Also referenced are transcriptions of Rachmaninoff's works by Kreisler and Heifetz.

Event Date

  • February 14, 2017

Running Time

  • 42 minutes 51 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Rewriting Rachmaninoff: Transcriptions and Revisions in the Library's Collections. 2017. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9810/.

APA citation style:

(2017) Rewriting Rachmaninoff: Transcriptions and Revisions in the Library's Collections. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9810/.

MLA citation style:

Rewriting Rachmaninoff: Transcriptions and Revisions in the Library's Collections. 2017. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9810/>.