A History of Russian Music
Subtitle: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780520248250
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Music; Genres & Styles - Opera; Music/Songbooks; Instruction & Study - Theory; Russia; Ethnic; Genres & Styles - International; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; General; History and criticism; Soviet Union
First sentence: In book 2 of War and Peace Tolstoy transports us to the Russia of our dreams in his delightful account of the hunt in the copse at Otradnoe and of the nocturnal outing in the troika-the moonlight over the snow-covered plain, the wintry silence broken by the jingle of the bells, the swish of the runners, and the crunch of the snow.