Defining Russia Musically - Historical and Hermeneutical Essays - Paperback - 2000

Shows how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. This book focuses on four individual composers, each characterized both as a selfconsciously Russian creator and as a European.
Year of publication: 2000
Pagination: 616 pages, 127 music exs., 11 figures, 3 diagrams
Format: Paperback