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On Russian music /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taruskin, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Colección:Ahmanson Foundation humanities endowment fund imprint.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 : 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).