| Description |
1 online resource (407 pages) : music |
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Ahmanson Foundation humanities endowment fund imprint |
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Ahmanson Foundation humanities endowment fund imprint
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| Contents |
Some thoughts on the history and historiography of Russian music -- For Ukraine, he's a native son, regardless -- "Classicism" à 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) |
| Summary |
Includes six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as the famous names in between |
| Notes |
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Musical criticism.
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Music -- Russia -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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Music
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Musical criticism
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Componisten.
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Muziekwerken.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Russia
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Rusland.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007052243 |
| ISBN |
9780520942806 |
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0520942809 |
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