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In Lieu of Dedication: Fine Friends, Presiding Spirits—László
Somfai, Lyudmila Kovnatskaya, Richard L. Crocker

1. The Many Dangers of Music

LACI RESZE (LACI'S PART)
2. Liszt and Bad Taste
3. Goldmark’s Queen: On Signifiers
4. Why You Cannot Leave Bartók Out
5. Liszt’s Problems, Bartók’s Problems, My Problems
6. Kodály’s Pitiful Lament—and Mine

милина часть (MILA'S PART)
7. Russian Responses to Bach
8. So Much More Than a Composer
9. Rimsky-Korsakov Catches Up
10. Prokofieff’s Problems—and Ours
11. Коле посвящается (for Kolya)
12. In from the Cold
13. Flesh and Blood Juke Box
14. Tales of Push and Pull
15. Was Shostakovich a Martyr, or Is That Just Fiction?
16. How to Win a Stalin Prize: Shostakovich and His Quintet

PARS RICARDI PRIMI (RICARDUS PRIMUS'S PART)
17. Shooting a White Elephant
18. Is This a Thing?
19. Exoticism and Authenticity
20. Pathos Is Banned
21. Everybody Gotta Be Someplace: On Context
22. Alluring Failure, Exhilarating Defeat

23. Envoi: All Was Foreseen; Nothing Was Foreseen
Acknowledgments
Index

Musical Lives and Times Examined

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 14 March 2023
      ISBN-13 9780520392014
      978-0520392014
      ISBN-10 0520392019
      Also in:
      Biography Essays Entertainment Music

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Contents

      In Lieu of Dedication: Fine Friends, Presiding Spirits—László
      Somfai, Lyudmila Kovnatskaya, Richard L. Crocker

      1. The Many Dangers of Music

      LACI RESZE (LACI'S PART)
      2. Liszt and Bad Taste
      3. Goldmark’s Queen: On Signifiers
      4. Why You Cannot Leave Bartók Out
      5. Liszt’s Problems, Bartók’s Problems, My Problems
      6. Kodály’s Pitiful Lament—and Mine

      милина часть (MILA'S PART)
      7. Russian Responses to Bach
      8. So Much More Than a Composer
      9. Rimsky-Korsakov Catches Up
      10. Prokofieff’s Problems—and Ours
      11. Коле посвящается (for Kolya)
      12. In from the Cold
      13. Flesh and Blood Juke Box
      14. Tales of Push and Pull
      15. Was Shostakovich a Martyr, or Is That Just Fiction?
      16. How to Win a Stalin Prize: Shostakovich and His Quintet

      PARS RICARDI PRIMI (RICARDUS PRIMUS'S PART)
      17. Shooting a White Elephant
      18. Is This a Thing?
      19. Exoticism and Authenticity
      20. Pathos Is Banned
      21. Everybody Gotta Be Someplace: On Context
      22. Alluring Failure, Exhilarating Defeat

      23. Envoi: All Was Foreseen; Nothing Was Foreseen
      Acknowledgments
      Index

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