A history of Russian music : from Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar /
Maes, Francis,1963-
Berkeley : University of California Press,
2006, c2002.
"Originally published as Geschiedenis van de Russiche muziek: Van Kamarinskaja tot Babi Jar, c1996 Uitgeverij SUN, Nijmegen"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-402) and index.
Introduction: Natasha's dance, or musical nationalism -- "I'm finished with Russian music": Mikhaíl Glinka -- "There's Petersburg for you!": the birth pangs of a music culture -- The clash of ideas: the quest for the essence of the new Russian music -- The theory in practice; musical creation -- "Truth in the realm of the pseudo": Russian opera -- "The musician-human": Pyotr Chaikovsky -- "A musical conscience": Rimsky-Korsakov and the Belyayev Circle -- Imagination and renewal: the silver age -- "The cleansing catastrophe": early Soviet music -- "Russia's loss": the musical emigration -- From Yezhovshchina to Zhdanovshchina -- "Prokofiev must return to us" -- "The secret diary of a nation": the works of Shostakovich.
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