On Russian music

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This volume gathers 36 essays by one of the leading scholars in the study of Russian music. An extensive introduction lays out the main issues and a justification of Taruskin's approach, seen both in the light of his intellectual development and in that of the changing intellectual environment.

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Full title :On Russian music / Richard Taruskin.

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Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:407 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520249790, 0520249798, 9780520268067, 0520268067
oclc:ocn185095618
LC Classification:ML300
Dewey Decimal:780.947

Some thoughts on the history and historiography of Russian music -- For Ukraine, he's a native son, regardless -- "Classicism" a la russe -- A wonderful beginning -- Dargomïzhsky and his "Stone guest" -- Pathetic symphonist: Chaikovsky, Russia, sexuality and the study of music -- Chaikovsky and the literary folk: a study in misplaced derision -- The great symbolist opera -- Chaikovsky as symphonist -- Russian originals, de- and re-edited -- A new, new Boris? -- Christian themes in Russian opera: a millennial essay -- The case for Rimsky-Korsakov -- Kitezh: religious art of an atheist -- Sex and race, Russian style -- Yevreyi and Zhidy: a memoir, a survey, and a plea -- The antiliterary man: Diaghilev and music -- From fairy tale to opera in four moves -- To cross that sacred edge: notes on a fiery angel -- Prokofieff's return -- Tone, style, and form in Prokofieff's Soviet operas -- Great artists serving Stalin like a dog -- Stalin lives on in the concert hall, but why? -- The last symphony? -- For Russian music mavens, a fabled beast is bagged -- Restoring Comrade Roslavets -- When serious music mattered -- Casting a great composer as a fictional hero -- Shostakovich's Bach: a pi…

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Aufsatzsammlung Componisten Criticism, interpretation, etc Critique musicale Geschichte 1700-2008 Music Music -- History and criticism. -- Russ… Musical criticism Musik Muziekwerken Rusland Russia Russland Sociale aspecten