On Russian music

On Russian music

by Taruskin, Richard

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Includes six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as the famous names in between.

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  • Full title :On Russian music / Richard Taruskin.

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Includes six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as the famous names in between.

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  • Publication Date:©2009.

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"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities."

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (407 pages) : : music

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780520942806, 0520942809
  • oclc:ocn536166440
  • LC Classification:ML300.T38 2009
  • Dewey Decimal:780.947

Table of Contents

Some thoughts on the history and historiography of Russian music -- For Ukraine, he's a native son, regardless -- "Classicism" à 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 …

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Subjects

Componisten Criticism, interpretation, etc Critique musicale Music MUSIC -- Genres & Styles Music -- History and criticism. -- Russ… Musical criticism Muziekwerken Rusland Russia Sociale aspecten

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Taruskin, Richard

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