Defining Russia Musically : Historical and Hermeneutical Essays /
The world-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin has devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways. Defining Russia Musically represents one of his landmark achievements: here Taruskin uses music, together with history and...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
. 1997
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Others: A Mythology and a Demurrer (By Way of Preface)
- PART I. DEFINING RUSSIA MUSICALLY (SEVEN MINI-ESSAYS)
- 1. N. A. Lvov and the Folk
- 2. M. I. Glinka and the State
- 3. P. I. Chaikovsky and the Ghetto
- 4. Who Am I? (And Who Are You?)
- 5. Safe Harbors
- 6. After Everything
- 7. Objectives
- PART II. SELF AND OTHER
- 8. How the Acorn Took Root
- 9. "Entoiling the Falconet"
- 10. Italyanshchina
- PART III. HERMENEUTICS OF RUSSIAN MUSIC: FOUR CRUXES
- 11. Chaikovsky and the Human: A Centennial Essay
- 12. Scriabin and the Superhuman: A Millennial Essay
- 13. Stravinsky and the Subhuman
- 14. Shostakovich and the Inhuman
- Index
