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001 2007052243
003 DLC
005 20090115085605.0
008 071220s2009 caua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007052243
020 $a9780520249790 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aML300$b.T38 2009
082 00 $a780.947$222
100 1 $aTaruskin, Richard.
245 10 $aOn Russian music /$cRichard Taruskin.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2009.
300 $a407 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aAhmanson Foundation humanities endowment fund imprint
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSome thoughts on the history and historiography of Russian music -- For Ukraine, he's a native son, regardless -- "Classicism" a la russe -- A wonderful beginning -- Dargomyzhsky and his "stone guest" -- Pathetic symphonist: Chaikovsky, Russia, sexuality and the study of music -- Chaikovsky and the literary folk: a study in misplaced derision -- The great symbolist opera -- Chaikovsky as symphonist -- Russian originals, de- and re-edited -- A new, new Boris? -- Christian themes in Russian opera: a millennial essay -- The case for Rimsky-Korsakov -- Kitezh: religious art of an atheist -- Sex and race, Russian style -- Yevreyi and Zhidy: a memoir, a survey, and a plea -- The antiliterary man: diaghilev and music -- From fairy tale to opera in four moves -- To cross that sacred edge: notes on a fiery angel -- Prokofieff's return -- Tone, style, and form in Prokofieff's Soviet operas -- Great artists serving Stalin like a dog -- Stalin lives on in the concert hall, but why? -- The last symphony? -- For Russian music mavens, a fabled beast is bagged -- Restoring comrade roslavets -- When serious music mattered -- Casting a great composer as a fictional hero -- Shostakovich's Bach: a pill to purge Stalinism -- Five operas and a symphony -- Hearing cycles -- Of mice and Mendelssohn -- Current chronicle: Molchanov's the dawns are quiet here -- The rising Soviet mists yield up another voice -- Where is Russia's new music? Iowa, that's where -- North (Europe) by northwest (America).
650 0 $aMusical criticism.
650 0 $aMusic$zRussia$xHistory and criticism.