A History of Russian Music

From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-520-24825-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 441 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 654 g

Francis Maes's comprehensive and imaginative book introduces the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history over the past two decades. Based on the most recent critical literature, A History of Russian Music summarizes the new view of Russian music and provides a solid overview of the relationships between artistic movements and political ideas.

The revision of Russian music history may count as one of the most significant achievements of recent musicology. The Western view used to be largely based on the ideas of Vladimir Stasov, a friend and confidant of leading nineteenth-century Russian composers who was more a propagandist than a historian. With the deconstruction of Stasov's interpretation, stereotyped views have been replaced by a fuller understanding of the conditions and the context in which composers such as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Stravinsky created their oeuvres. Even the more recent history of Soviet music, in particular the achievement of Dmitry Shostakovich, is being assessed on new documentary grounds.

A more complex conception of Russian music develops as Maes explores the cultural and historical milieu from which great works have emerged. Questioning and re-examining traditional views, the author considers the personal development of composers, the relationship of art to social and political ideals in Russia, and the ideologies behind musical research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maes, Francis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pomerans, Arnold J.

Pomerans, Arnold

Pomerans, Erica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpsychologie, Musiksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Nichtwestliche Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Introduction: Natasha's Dance, or Musical Nationalism
2. "I'm Finished with Russian Music": Mikhail Glinka
3. "There's Petersburg for You!" The Birth Pangs of a Music Culture
4. The Clash of Ideas: The Quest for the Essence of the New Russian Music
5. The Theory in Practice: Musical Creation
6. "Truth in the Realm of the Pseudo": Russian Opera
7. "The Musician-Human": Pyotr Chaikovsky
8. "A Musical Conscience": Rimsky-Korsakov and the Belyayev Circle
9. Imagination and Renewal: The Silver Age
10. "The Cleansing Catastrophe": Early Soviet Music
11. Russia's Loss: The Musical Emigration
12. From Yezhovshchina to Zhdanovshchina
13. "Prokofiev Must Return to Us"
14. "The Secret Diary of a Nation": The Works of Shostakovich
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francis Maes is Artistic Director of the Flanders Festival and the editor of The Empire Resounds: Music in the Days of Charles V (1999).