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.
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A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar
February 20, 2006, University of California Press
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A history of Russian music: from Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar
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Table of Contents
List of Plates
Page ix
Preface
Page xi
1.
Introduction: Natasha's Dance, or Musical Nationalism
Page 1
2.
"I'm Finished with Russian Music": Mikhail Glinka
Page 11
3.
"There's Petersburg for You!": The Birth Pangs of a Music Culture
Page 30
4.
The Clash of Ideas: The Quest for the Essence of the New Russian Music
Page 49
5.
The Theory in Practice: Musical Creation
Page 63
6.
"Truth in the Realm of the Pseudo": Russian Opera
Page 93
7.
"The Musician-Human": Pyotr Chaikovsky
Page 132
8.
A Musical Conscience: Rimsky-Korsakov and the Belyayev Circle
Page 167
9.
Imagination and Renewal: The Silver Age
Page 196
10.
"The Cleansing Catastrophe": Early Soviet Music
Page 236
11.
Russia's Loss: The Musical Emigration
Page 271
12.
From Yezhovshchina to Zhdanovshchina
Page 298
13.
"Prokofiev Must Return to Us"
Page 318
14.
"The Secret Diary of a Nation": The Works of Shostakovich
Page 343
Notes
Page 375
Bibliography
Page 395
Index
Page 403
Edition 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.
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