Author |
Maes, Francis, 1963-
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Subject |
Music -- Russia -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.
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Description |
xiv, 427 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Note |
Translation of Geschiedenis van de Russische muziek. |
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"Originally published as Geschiedenis van de Russische muziek: Van Kamarinskaja tot Babi Jar, c1996 Uitgeverij SUN, Nijmegen"--T.p. verso. |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-402) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Natasha's dance, or musical nationalism -- "I'm finished with Russian music": Mikhaíl Glinka -- "There's Petersburg for you!": the birth pangs of a music culture -- The clash of ideas: the quest for the essence of the new Russian music -- The theory in practice; musical creation -- "Truth in the realm of the pseudo": Russian opera -- "The musician-human": Pyotr Chaikovsky -- "A musical conscience": Rimsky-Korsakov and the Belyayev Circle -- Imagination and renewal: the silver age -- "The cleansing catastrophe": early Soviet music -- "Russia's loss": the musical emigration -- From Yezhovshchina to Zhdanovshchina -- "Prokofiev must return to us" -- "The secret diary of a nation": the works of Shostakovich. |
ISBN |
0520218159 (alk. paper) : $45.00 |
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0520248252 (pbk.) |
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9780520248250 (pbk.) |
OCLC # |
46678246 |
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