Historical Dictionary of Russian Music (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. Meanwhile the innovations of Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and Igor St
| Title | : | Historical Dictionary of Russian Music (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (454 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810853116 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 458 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2012-03-08 |
| Genre | : |
Editorial : Jaffé (Sergey Prokofiev) opens this comprehensive subject guide with a chronology listing salient musical and political events from 5500 B.C.E., when instruments were discovered in Karelia, to 2011, with the centenary concert of Pyatnitsky’s Choir. Following this is an engaging 31-page historical overview, easily navigated by helpful period-specific subheadings. More than 500 concise entries then profile historical and contemporary composers, movements, performance venues, operas, instruments, and other terms relevant to or significantly shaping Russian musical history. A fabulous 68-page, thematically organized bibliography rounds out this fundamental reference. VERDICT A wonderful complement to the 36 essays comprising Richard Taruskin’s On Russian Music (Univ. of California Pr., 2010). (Library Journal)
A superbly produced dictionary, which also has an excellent chronologyNobody with special interest in this subject should hesitate. (Classical
Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today’s lingua franca both in the concert hall and on the soundtracks of international blockbusters from Hollywood. Meanwhile the innovations of Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky have played their crucial role in the development of Western music in the last century, influencing the work of virtually every notable composer of the last century.
The Historical Dictionary of Russian Music covers the history of Russian music starting from the earliest archaeological discoveries to the present, including folk music, sacred music, and secular art music. The book contains a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on every major compos
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