On Russian Music

By: Richard Taruskin

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Paperback | 30 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between. Some of these pieces, like the ones on Chaikovsky's alleged suicide and on the interpretation of Shostakovich's legacy, have won fame in their own right as decisive contributions to some of the most significant debates in contemporary musicology. An extensive introduction lays out the main issues and a justification of Taruskin's approach, seen both in the light of his intellectual development and in that of the changing intellectual environment, which has been particularly marked by the end of the cold war in Europe.

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"[Taruskin's] command of this subject is surely unparalleled... This is an authoritative, consistently challenging, deeply engaging volume of essays - very strongly recommended." -- Philip Borg-Wheeler Classical Music Magazine "Very entertaining." -- Michael Kimmelman New York Review Of Books "[Taruskin's essays] demonstrate his ... rare gift for conveying complex information in a concise, accessible manner... An essential compendium." Notes "Whether [Taruskin is] validating Susan McClary's sexist charges at Beethoven or implicitly acknowledging his debt to Donald Francis Tovey, reading his essays will make you a better, smarter person." Huffington Post

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preface: against utopia	p. ix
Et in Arcadia Ego; or, I Didn't Know I Was Such a Pessimist until I Wrote This Thing (a talk)	p. 1
From the New York Times, mostly
Only Time Will Cover the Taint	p. 21
"Nationalism": Colonialism in Disguise?	p. 25
Why Do They All Hate Horowitz?	p. 30
Optimism amid the Rubble	p. 37
A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck	p. 43
Does Nature Call the Tune?	p. 46
Two Stabs at the Universe	p. 51
Away with the Ives Myth: The "Universe" Is Here at Last	p. 51
	p. 55
In Search of the "Good" Hindemith Legacy	p. 60
Six Times Six: A Bach Suite Selection	p. 66
A Beethoven Season?	p. 71
Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist	p. 81
How Talented Composers Become Useless	p. 86
Making a Stand against Sterility	p. 94
A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century	p. 98
Calling All Pundits: No More Predictions!	p. 104
In The Rake's Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All	p. 109
Markevitch as Icarus	p. 118
Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers	p. 124
Early Music: Truly Old-Fashioned at Last?	p. 129
Bartók and Stravinsky: Odd Couple Reunited?	p. 133
Wagner's Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party	p. 138
A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism	p. 144
Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks	p. 153
Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last?	p. 161
The Danger of Music and the Case for Control	p. 165
Ezra Pound: A Slim Sound Claim to Musical Immortality	p. 181
Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart	p. 186
Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late	p. 191
The First Modernist	p. 195
The Dark Side of the Moon	p. 202
Of Kings and Divas	p. 217
The Golden Age of Kitsch	p. 241
No Ear for Music: The Scary Purity of John Cage	p. 261
Sacred Entertainments	p. 280
The Poietic Fallacy	p. 301
The Musical Mystique: Defending Classical Music against Its Devotees	p. 330
From the scholarly press
Revising Revision	p. 354
Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology	p. 382
She Do the Ring in Different Voices	p. 406
Stravinsky and Us	p. 420
Envoi
Setting Limits (a talk)	p. 448
index	p. 000
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