Musorgsky : : Eight Essays and an Epilogue / / Richard Taruskin.
"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 ref...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (452 p.) :; 102 music examples 9 figs. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- A Note On Transliteration
- A Note On Dates
- Table Of Abbreviations
- Pronouncing The Name
- What Is A Kuchka?
- Introduction. Who Speaks for Musorgsky?
- 1: "Little Star": An Etude in the Folk Style
- 2: Handel, Shakespeare, and Musorgsky: The Sources and Limits of Russian Musical Realism
- 3: Serov and Musorgsky
- 4: The Present in the Past: Russian Opera and Russian Historiography, circa 1870
- 5: Musorgsky versus Musorgsky: The Versions of Boris Godunov
- 6: Slava!
- 7: The Power of the Black Earth: Notes on Khovanshchina
- 8: Sorochintsi Fair Revisited
- Epiogue: Musorgsky in the Age of Glasnost
- Index