Defining Russia Musically
The term hermeneutics is omitted from most recently published music dictionaries, but it is making a comeback in scholarly musicological studies. Increasingly, there is an attempt to understand works in their historical contexts rather than by application of possibly inappropriate analytic formulas or culturally biased aesthetic judgments, which are cited and "deconstructed" so as to make way for new interpretations. Taruskin, the leading American Russian music scholar (Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, LJ 12/95), here collects 14 essays on Russian art music and Russianess in general, most based on lectures he gave in 1993 and 1994. His usual originality, passionate arguments, and deep, broad research are present as Taruskin treats music by and scholarship on Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Stravinsky (again), Shostakovich, and others. For academic and large public libraries.?Bonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. of Maryland Lib., College ParkCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.