On Russian music
By: Richard Taruskin.
Series: Ahmanson Foundation humanities endowment fund imprint
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780520249790
Subjects: Musical criticism; Music -- Russia -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some thoughts on the history and historiography of Russian music; title: For Ukraine, he's a native son, regardless; title: "Classicism" a la russe; title: A wonderful beginning; title: Dargomyzhsky and his "stone guest"; title: Pathetic symphonist : Chaikovsky, Russia, sexuality and the study of music; title: Chaikovsky and the literary folk : a study in misplaced derision; title: The great symbolist opera; title: Chaikovsky as symphonist; title: Russian originals, de- and re-edited; title: A new, new Boris?; title: Christian themes in Russian opera; title: The case for Rimsky-Korsakov; title: Kitezh : religious art of an atheist; title: Sex and race, Russian style; title: Yevreyi and Zhidy : a memoir, a survey, and a plea; title: The antiliterary man : diaghilev and music; title: From fairy tale to opera in four moves; title: To cross that sacred edge : notes on a fiery angel; title: Prokofieff's return; title: Tone, style, and form in Prokofieff's Soviet operas; title: Great artists serving Stalin like a dog; title: Stalin lives on in the concert hall, but why?; title: The last symphony?; title: For Russian music mavens, a fabled beast is bagged; title: Restoring comrade roslavets; title: When serious music mattered; title: Casting a great composer as a fictional hero; title: Shostakovich's Bach: a pill to purge Stalinism; title: Five operas and a symphony; title: Hearing cycles; title: Of mice and Mendelssohn; title: Current chronicle : Molchanov's the dawns are quiet here; title: The rising Soviet mists yield up another voice; title: Where is Russia's new music? Iowa, that's where; title: North (Europe) by northwest (America).