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Eastern European music --- Music --- Music. --- To 1900. --- Abraham, Gerald,
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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 politics, to illustrate the many ways in which Russian national identity has been constructed, both from within Russia and from the Western perspective. He contends that it is through music that the powerful myth of Russia's "national character" can best be understood. Russian art music, like Russia itself, Taruskin writes, has "always [been] tinged or tainted . with an air of alterity--sensed, exploited, bemoaned, reveled in, traded on, and defended against both from within and from without." The author's goal is to explore this assumption of otherness in an all-encompassing work that re-creates the cultural contexts of the folksong anthologies of the 1700s, the operas, symphonies, and ballets of the 1800s, the modernist masterpieces of the 1900s, and the hugely fraught but ambiguous products of the Soviet period. Taruskin begins by showing how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. He then examines how Russia as a whole shaped its identity in contrast to an "East" during the age of its imperialist expansion, and in contrast to two different musical "Wests," Germany and Italy, during the formative years of its national consciousness. The final section, expanded from a series of Christian Gauss seminars presented at Princeton in 1993, focuses on four individual composers, each characterized both as a self-consciously Russian creator and as a European, and each placed in perspective within a revealing hermeneutic scheme. In the culminating chapters--Chaikovsky and the Human, Scriabin and the Superhuman, Stravinsky and the Subhuman, and Shostakovich and the Inhuman--Taruskin offers especially thought-provoking insights, for example, on Chaikovsky's status as the "last great eighteenth-century composer" and on Stravinsky's espousal of formalism as a reactionary, literally counterrevolutionary move.
Music --- Soviet Union. --- Abraham, Gerald. --- Acocella, Joan. --- Alexander III, Tsar. --- Bellini, Vincenzo. --- Berger, Arthur. --- Bolshoy Theater (St. Petersburg). --- Brown, David. --- Carter, Elliott. --- Cavos, Catterino. --- Dahlhaus, Carl. --- Dehn, Siegfried. --- Donizetti, Gaetano. --- Enlightenment, aesthetic of. --- Fedorov, Vladimir. --- Frezzolini, Erminia. --- Garafola, Lynn. --- Hindemith, Paul. --- Imperial Theaters. --- Jahn, Otto. --- Karsavin, Lev Platonovich. --- Kelkel, Manfred. --- Lachner, Franz. --- Longyear, Rey. --- MacDonald, Ian. --- Mazel, Leo Abramovich. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich. --- Patti, Adelina. --- Rossini, Gioacchino. --- cold war. --- criticism, formalist. --- formalism. --- harmonic invariance. --- hermeneutics. --- ideocracy. --- irony. --- kitsch. --- naturalism. --- orientalism. --- pleroma. --- realism.
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"It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer. [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century have refashioned Musorgsky from what the evidence suggests he was--an aristocrat with an early clinical interest in true-to-life musical portraiture and a later penchant for drinking partners who were both folklore buffs and political reactionaries democrat."--From the foreword Incorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book for the first time sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context. From this perspective Richard Taruskin revises fundamentally the composer's historical and artistic image, in particular debunking the century-old dogmas of Vladimir Stasov, Musorgsky's first biographer. Here the author offers the most complete explanation of the revision of the opera Boris Godunov, compares it to contemporaneous operas by Chaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, advances a revisionary characterization of Khovanshchina as an aristocratic tragedy informed by a pessimistic view of history, discusses Musorgsky's use of folklore, and, focusing on Sorochintsi Fair, brings to a climax his refutation of Musorgsky as a protorevolutionary populist. The epilogue is a survey of revisionary productions of Musorgsky's works at home during the Gorbachev era.
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich --- -Criticism and interpretation --- 526 --- Monografieën componisten en uitvoerders --- Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, --- Mussorgsky, Modest, --- Musorgskij, Modest Petrovič, --- Mussorgski, Modest P., --- Moussorgsky, Modeste Petrovich, --- Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, --- Moussorgski, Modeste Petrovich, --- Moessorgskie, Modest Petrowietsj, --- Musorgskiĭ, M. P. --- Musorhsʹkyĭ, Modest Petrovych, --- Musorgskis, Modests, --- Mussorgsky, M. --- Musorgskiĭ, Modest Petrovich, --- Mussorgskij, Modest Petrowitsch, --- Musorgsky, Modest Petrovich, --- Moussorgsky, M. --- Musorgski, --- Musorgsky, M. --- Musorgskij, Modesto, --- Musorgskij, M. --- Mussorgskij, Modesto, --- Мусоргский, Модест Петрович, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Musorgsky, Modest Petrovich --- Criticism and interpretation --- Musorgskij, Modest P. --- MUSIC / History & Criticism. --- Abraham, Gerald. --- Aristotle. --- Billington, James. --- Blyma, Franz Xaver. --- Ceausescu, Nicolae. --- Coates, Albert. --- Duhamel, Antoine. --- Emerson, Caryl. --- Fet, Afanasiy Afanasyevich. --- Free Music School. --- Gervinus, Georg Gottfried. --- Godet, Robert. --- Gypsy singers. --- Judic, Annie. --- Karlinsky, Simon. --- Kerman, Joseph. --- Laloy, Louis. --- Liszt, Franz. --- Malherbe, Charles. --- Martianus Capella. --- Mïshetsky, Prince. --- Newmarch, Rosa. --- Olkhovsky, Yuri. --- Orientalism. --- Peri, Jacopo. --- Pratsch, Johann Gottfried. --- Rathaus, Karol. --- Reilly, Edward. --- Riemann, Hugo. --- Rossini, Gioacchino. --- Rumyantsev, Sergey. --- Scribe, Eugène. --- Shestakova, Lyudmila. --- Streltsy Revolts. --- Tolstaya, Tatyana. --- Turner, Jane. --- Vernadsky, George. --- Wagner, Richard. --- Wiley, Roland John. --- Yugov, Alexey Kuzmich. --- anti-Semitism. --- censorship. --- historical drama. --- historical opera. --- imitation. --- narod. --- oprichnina. --- realism.
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