Uniform title | Geschiedenis van de Russiche muziek. English |
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. |
Abstract |
Introduces the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history over the past two decades. Summarizes the new view of Russian music and provides an overview of the relationships between artistic movements and political ideas. |
General note | "Originally published as Geschiedenis van de Russiche muziek: Van Kamarinskaja tot Babi Jar, c1996 Uitgeverij SUN, Nijmegen". |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-402) and index. |
Language | Translation of Geschiedenis van de Russiche muziek. |
LCCN | 2001027617 |
ISBN | 0520218159 (alk. paper) |