A History of Russian Music: From "Kamarinskaya" to "Babi Yar"

A large work exceeding 700 pages. The cover has some damage. I have checked the inside thoroughly, but found no writing. Please forgive any minor oversights.

Author: Francis Maes
Translators: Minoru Morita / Norio Umezu / Akemi Nakata
Publisher: Shunjusha

A new horizon in Russian music studies that fundamentally corrects existing views of music and culture. This is a painstaking work that meticulously traces the cultural and historical circumstances in which the transitions of musical creation from Glinka to Shostakovich and their great works were born.

Introduction - Natasha's Dance, or Musical Nationalism
"I have severed ties with Russian music" - Mikhail Glinka
"This is what Saint Petersburg is like!" - The birth pangs of musical culture
Clash of Ideals - Exploring the essence of new Russian music
Practice of Theory - Musical creation
"Truth in the Kingdom of Falsehood" - Russian Opera
"The Human Musician" - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
"Musical Conscience" - Rimsky-Korsakov and the Belyayev Circle
Imagination and Innovation - "The Silver Age"
"Purifying Catastrophe" - Early Soviet Music
"The Loss of Russia" - Emigration of Musicians
From the Yezhov Regime to the Zhdanov Doctrine
"Prokofiev Must Return to Us"
"The Secret Diary of the People" - Shostakovich's Works

Maes, Francis
Born in 1963. Graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and Ghent University. In 1993, he received his Ph.D. from Ghent University with his doctoral dissertation "19th Century Unaccompanied Choral Music." From 1996 to 2002, he was the artistic director of the Flanders Music Festival. In 2002, he became a professor at Ghent University (musicology). Specializes in Russian music history and Janáček.

Morita, Minoru
Born in 1935. Graduated from the Department of Russian Language, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and the Department of Musicology, Tokyo University of the Arts. After serving as a lecturer at Hirosaki University, an assistant professor and professor at Miyagi University of Education, he is now a professor emeritus at Miyagi University of Education. Specializes in the music of Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Umezu, Norio
Born in 1966. Graduated from the Department of Russian Language, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and completed the doctoral program in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. After working as an assistant at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, he is now a lecturer at Kogakuin University and Tokyo International University. Specializes in Russian music history and representation culture.

Nakata, Akemi
Born in 1973. Graduated from the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and completed the master's program in Musicology, Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. Currently enrolled in the doctoral program. Specializes in Soviet music.

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