World-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin contends that it is through music that the powerful myth of Russia's "national character" can best be understood. He has devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways. Here he defends his theories by exploring Russia's cultural and music history through three centuries to the present. Illus.
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World-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin contends that it is through music that the powerful myth of Russia's "national character" can best be understood. He has devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways. Here he defends his theories by exploring Russia's cultural and music history through three centuries to the present. Illus.
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The title of this book is the best introduction one could have to its content and approach in a few words. Russian music offers a wealth of beauty within a very nationally recognizable framework, and therefore it does lend itself to being "defined" more than the music of other European countries. Taruskin proceeds entirely "musically" in this series of essays, and the scholar as well as the music lover will find listening to Russian music greatly enhanced by the analyses and insights presented. There is an "historical" approach to the essays, though the last term, "hermeneutical" is the most important one: the author holds and expresses very strong opinions and value judgments, and the issues and composers he chooses to put in historical context are personal. Because he is the world's greatest living Russian music scholar, I find his hermeneutical (i.e., interpretative) manner exciting, stimulating, and memorable, where others might be put off by the strength of his tastes and preferences. No other book in the literature of Russian music can match this one for excellence.
