Defining Russia Musically (eBook)

Historical and Hermeneutical Essays

Richard Taruskin (Autor)

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2020
616 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21937-0 (ISBN)

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The world-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways. Defining Russia Musically represents one of his landmark achievements: here 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 "e;national character"e; can best be understood. Russian art music, like Russia itself, Taruskin writes, has "e;always [been] tinged or tainted . . . with an air of alterity-sensed, exploited, bemoaned, reveled in, traded on, and defended against both from within and from without."e; The author's goal is to explore this assumption of otherness in an all-encompassing work that re-creates the cultural contexts of the folksong anthologies of the 1700s, the operas, symphonies, and ballets of the 1800s, the modernist masterpieces of the 1900s, and the hugely fraught but ambiguous products of the Soviet period.Taruskin 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. He then examines how Russia as a whole shaped its identity in contrast to an "e;East"e; during the age of its imperialist expansion, and in contrast to two different musical "e;Wests,"e; Germany and Italy, during the formative years of its national consciousness. The final section 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. In the culminating chapters-Chaikovsky and the Human, Scriabin and the Superhuman, Stravinsky and the Subhuman, and Shostakovich and the Inhuman-Taruskin offers especially thought-provoking insights, for example, on Chaikovsky's status as the "e;last great eighteenth-century composer"e; and on Stravinsky's espousal of formalism as a reactionary, literally counterrevolutionary move.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 127 music exs., 11 figures, 3 diagrams
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 19th-century music • Abraham, Gerald • absolute music • Acocella, Joan • Aestheticism • Alexander III, Tsar • Alexander Scriabin • Alexander Serov • A Life for the Tsar • Allegory • Anachronism • Anton Rubinstein • Arnold Schoenberg • Art Music • Atonality • Bellini, Vincenzo • Berger, Arthur • bolsheviks • Bolshoy Theater (St. Petersburg) • Boris Asafyev • Boris Godunov (opera) • Brown, David • Carter, Elliott • Cavatina • Cavos, Catterino • Censure • Clarinet • Classicism • Claude Debussy • Cold War • Composer • criticism, formalist • Dahlhaus, Carl • Dehn, Siegfried • dichotomy • Dmitri Shostakovich • Donizetti, Gaetano • Enlightenment, aesthetic of • Eugene Onegin • evocation • Fedorov, Vladimir • Felix Mendelssohn • Folk music • for example • Formalism • Franz Liszt • Frezzolini, Erminia • Garafola, Lynn • Genre • Gustav Mahler • harmonic invariance • Hector Berlioz • hermeneutics • Hindemith, Paul • Historiography • Ideocracy • Ideology • Igor Stravinsky • Imperial Theaters • Intelligentsia • Irony • italian opera • Jahn, Otto • Joseph Kerman • Kamarinskaya • Karsavin, Lev Platonovich • Katerina • Katerina (The Vampire Diaries) • Kelkel, Manfred • Kitsch • Lachner, Franz • Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera) • Leitmotif • Libretto • Literature • Longyear, Rey • Ludwig van Beethoven • MacDonald, Ian • Mazel, Leo Abramovich • Message in a Bottle • modernism • Modest Mussorgsky • musical analysis • Music History • musician • Music Is • musicology • music theory • narrative • Naturalism • Neoclassicism • Nietzsche, Friedrich • Octatonic scale • Onegin (Cranko) • oratorio • orchestra • Orientalism • Parody • Patti, Adelina • Phrase (music) • Pleroma • Prince Igor • Princeton University Press • Program music • pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky • Realism • Richard Strauss • Richard Wagner • Robert Craft • Romanticism • Rossini, Gioacchino • Rubinstein • Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera) • Russian culture • Russian opera • russians • Schumann • sergei diaghilev • Sergei Prokofiev • Sergei Rachmaninoff • Singing • Singspiel • Socialist Realism • Stalinism • Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians • The Oprichnik • The Orchestra • Timbre • tonality • Totalitarianism • To this Day • V. • Vladimir Stasov • Waltz • Wozzeck • Writer • Writing • Xample
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21937-0 / 0691219370
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21937-0 / 9780691219370