A history of Russian music
Subtitle: from Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar
By: Francis Maes ; translated by Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Music -- Russia -- History and criticism; Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
Notes: Translation of Geschiedenis van de Russiche muziek.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-402) and index.
"Originally published as Geschiedenis van de Russiche muziek: Van Kamarinskaja tot Babi Jar, c1996 Uitgeverij SUN, Nijmegen"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: List of Plates
pagenum: ix; title: Preface
pagenum: xi; label: 1
title: Introduction: Natasha's Dance, or Musical Nationalism
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: "I'm Finished with Russian Music": Mikhail Glinka
pagenum: 11; label: 3
title: "There's Petersburg for You!": The Birth Pangs of a Music Culture
pagenum: 30; label: 4
title: The Clash of Ideas: The Quest for the Essence of the New Russian Music
pagenum: 49; label: 5
title: The Theory in Practice: Musical Creation
pagenum: 63; label: 6
title: "Truth in the Realm of the Pseudo": Russian Opera
pagenum: 93; label: 7
title: "The Musician-Human": Pyotr Chaikovsky
pagenum: 132; label: 8
title: A Musical Conscience: Rimsky-Korsakov and the Belyayev Circle
pagenum: 167; label: 9
title: Imagination and Renewal: The Silver Age
pagenum: 196; label: 10
title: "The Cleansing Catastrophe": Early Soviet Music
pagenum: 236; label: 11
title: Russia's Loss: The Musical Emigration
pagenum: 271; label: 12
title: From Yezhovshchina to Zhdanovshchina
pagenum: 298; label: 13
title: "Prokofiev Must Return to Us"
pagenum: 318; label: 14
title: "The Secret Diary of a Nation": The Works of Shostakovich
pagenum: 343; title: Notes
pagenum: 375; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 395; title: Index
pagenum: 403