عنوان

On Russian music /

(Number (ISBN

0520249798 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0520268067

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9780520249790 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780520268067

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Title Proper

On Russian music /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Richard Taruskin

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2009

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

407 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Ahmanson Foundation humanities endowment fund imprint

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

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 pill to purge Stalinism -- Five operas and a symphony -- Hearing cycles -- Of mice and Mendelssohn -- Current chronicle: Molchanov's The dawns are quiet here -- The rising Soviet mists yield up another voice -- Where is Russia's new music? Iowa, that's where -- North (Europe) by northwest (America)

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Text of Note

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

Music-- Russia-- History and criticism

Musical criticism

Taruskin, Richard

Date of Transaction

20120507034814.0

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[Book]

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