00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217611726902 Buklod 20150818114608.0 a r |||| u| s| u||||||u|u| 150818s2009 xx d r |||| u| 9780520249790 (paperback) (iLib)UPD-00247608371 DLC DMUS rda eng DMLUC ML 300 T37 2009 Taruskin, Richard author On Russian music Richard Taruskin. Berkeley University of California Press [2009] 407 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Ahmanson Foundation humanities endowment fund imprint. Includes bibliographical references and index. Some thoughts on the history and historiography of Russian music -- For Ukraine, he's a native son, regardless -- "Classicism" a la russe -- A wonderful beginning -- Dargomïzhsky 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). This volume gathers 36 essays by one of the leading scholars in the study of Russian music. An extensive introduction lays out the main issues and a justification of Taruskin's approach, seen both in the light of his intellectual development and in that of the changing intellectual environment. Musical criticism. Music Russia History and criticism. FO UPD DMUS ML 300 T37 2009 Book