A History of Russian Music,9780520218154

A History of Russian Music

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ISBN13: 9780520218154
ISBN10: 0520218159
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

A history of Russian music in the 19th and 20th centuries, from Glinka, the "father of Russian music," through the late works of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. This book breaks through the usual stereotypes about Russian music to provide an entertaining survey for students and general readers.

Table of Contents

List of Plates
ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Natasha's Dance, or Musical Nationalism
1(10)
``I'm Finished with Russian Music'': Mikhail Glinka
11(19)
``There's Petersburg for You!'': The Birth Pangs of a Music Culture
30(19)
The Clash of Ideas: The Quest for the Essence of the New Russian Music
49(14)
The Theory in Practice: Musical Creation
63(30)
``Truth in the Realm of the Pseudo'': Russian Opera
93(39)
``The Musician-Human'': Pyotr Chaikovsky
132(35)
``A Musical Conscience'': Rimsky-Korsakov and the Belyayev Circle
167(29)
Imagination and Renewal: The Silver Age
196(40)
``The Cleansing Catastrophe'': Early Soviet Music
236(35)
``Russia's Loss'': The Musical Emigration
271(27)
From Yezhovschina to Zhdanovshchina
298(20)
``Prokofiev Must Return to Us''
318(25)
``The Secret Diary of a Nation'': The Works of Shostakovich
343(32)
Notes 375(20)
Bibliography 395(8)
Index 403

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