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On Russian Music

By Richard , Taruskin

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0520249798, 978-0-520-24979-0, 9780520942806, 0520942809, 233-214-223-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2455633 bytes)
Series
Ahmanson Foundation humanities endowment fund imprint
Edition
F First Edition, 1st Printing
Pages
417\417
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Musical criticism. Music -- Russia -- History and

Description

Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between. Some of these pieces, like the ones on Chaikovsky's alleged suicide and on the interpretation of Shostakovich's legacy, have won fame in their own right as decisive contributions to some of the most significant debates in contemporary musicology. 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, which has been particularly marked by the end of the cold war in Europe.

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