Richard Taruskin

Biographic Data

ID411608
NAMERichard Taruskin
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMETaruskin
SIGNATURETARUSKIN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT61
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Stravinsky, Ditta, and Bartók’s First Piano Concerto

    Richard TaruskinARTICLEStudia musicologica2020

    In a memorable letter of 18 March 1926, brought to the attention of Anglophone scholars by David Schneider, Bartók’s second wife Ditta Pásztory described her reaction (obviously also reflecting that of her husband’s) to Stravinsky’s Piano Concerto just after listening to its Budapest premiere with the composer at the piano as being attracted to the machine music but missing in it what she called her “homeland.” In the present article I should lik…

  • Colloquy: Musicology and the Middlebrow

    Christopher Chowrimootoo, Kate Guthrie et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2020

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  • Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays

    Richard TaruskinBOOKDefining Russia Musically2020

  • Freedom From Violence and Lies: Essays on Russian Poetry and Music by Simon Karlinsky

    Open AccessSimon Karlinsky, Robert P Hughes et al.BOOKFreedom from Violence and Lies2019

  • The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music

    Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Ann Smart et al.BOOKSecular Commedia2019

    Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa. Allanbrook mines a rich tr…

  • Freedom from Violence and Lies: Essays on Russian Poetry and Music

    Open AccessSimon Karlinsky, Robert P Hughes et al.BOOKFreedom from Violence and Lies2013Cited by: 1

    The heyday of Karlinsky's scholarly career coincided with the Cold War and an extended period of stagnation in social, political and cultural life in the Soviet Union, and much of his most valuable work is best understood against that background.His disgust with the restrictive and restricted worldviews, rampant censorship, and hidebound ideologies that were so characteristic of the period (1950s-1980s) is everywhere evident

  • The Oxford History of Western Music: Volume 3: Music in the Nineteenth Century

    Richard TaruskinBOOKMusic in the nineteenth century2009

    The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical i…

  • Music in the nineteenth century

    Richard TaruskinBOOKMusic in the nineteenth century2009

  • Material Gains: Assessing Susan McClary

    Richard TaruskinARTICLEMusic and Letters2009Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Material Gains: Assessing Susan McClary Get access Richard Taruskin Richard Taruskin * *University of California at Berkeley. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 90, Issue 3, August 2009, Pages 453–467, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcp049 Published: 23 June 2009

  • Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music

    Richard TaruskinARTICLEMusic and Letters2006

    Journal Article Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music Get access Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music. By Van der Merwe Peter. pp. xviii + 558. ( Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004, £105. ISBN 0-19-816647-8.) Richard Taruskin Richard Taruskin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 2007, Pages 134–139, ht…

  • The Oxford History of Western Music, Volume 3: The Nineteenth Century

    Arnold Whittall, Richard TaruskinARTICLEThe Musical Times2005

  • Russia (opera)

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Fair at Sorochintsï, The

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich (opera)

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (opera)

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Ruslan and Lyudmila

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Stasov, Vladimir Vasil’yevich (opera)

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Tolstoy, Lev [Leo] Nikolayevich (opera)

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Boris Godunov

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Musorgsky, Modest Petrovich (opera)

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Tsarskoye Selo

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Queen of Spades, The

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Pavlovsk

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Prince Igor

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, The

    Richard TaruskinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002