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Defining Russia Musically

Historical and Hermeneutical Essays

Richard Taruskin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

600 Seiten

1997
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-01156-1 (ISBN)

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In this text, musicologist Richard 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. The book 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. It 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 of the book, 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.

Richard Taruskin, Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, is a regular contributor to New Republic, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Opera News, and many scholarly publications. His books include Opera and Drama in Russia, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, and Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue, now available through Princeton University Press in paperback.

Zusatzinfo	127 music exs., 11 figures, 3 diagrams
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	992 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-691-01156-7 / 0691011567
ISBN-13	978-0-691-01156-1 / 9780691011561
Zustand	Neuware