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Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

by Daniel Jaffe
Scarecrow. (Historical Dictionaries of Literature & the Arts). 2012. 458p. bibliog. ISBN 9780810853119. $110. Online: eBooks on EBSCOhost, Overdrive, MyiLibrary, EBL, & Questia REF
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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).
Reviewed by Savannah Schroll Guz , Jul 01, 2012
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