On Russian music

by Taruskin, Richard

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Full title :On Russian music / Richard Taruskin.

Edition Statements

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
oclc:ocn301790049
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 -- Dargomyzhsky 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 -- 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 pill to purge S…

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