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This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad ofthe Good, the True, and the Beautiful, to investigatehow the idea of nation embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post cold-war, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that attach to it in the era of Pussy Riot and renewed international tensions, before turning to individual cases from the nineteenth century to the present.

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Richard Taruskinis the Class of 1955 Professor of Music emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1987 to 2014, after twenty-six years at Columbia University (man and boy). He is the author ofStravinsky and the Russian Traditions,On Russian Music, Defining Russia Musically, and the six-volume Oxford History of Western Music.

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