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PhD Musicology Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, Richard Filler Taruskin was an American musicologist and music critic who was among the leading and most prominent music historians of his generation. The breadth of his scrutiny into source material as well as musical analysis that combines sociological, cultural, and political perspectives has incited much discussion, debate and controversy. He regularly wrote music criticism for newspapers including The New York Times. He researched a wide variety of areas, but a central topic was Russian music from the 18th century to the present day. Other subjects he engaged with include the theory of performance, 15th-century music, 20th-century classical music, nationalism in music, the theory of modernism, and analysis. He is best known for his monumental survey of Western classical music, the six-volume Oxford History of Western Music. His awards include the first Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society in 1978 and the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy in 2017.

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Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance (1996) (222)
The Oxford History of Western Music (2004) (179)
Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays (1998) (144)
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through Mavra (1997) (114)
Defining Russia Musically (1997) (90)
Chernomor to Kashchei: Harmonic Sorcery; Or, Stravinsky's Angle (1985) (80)
The Danger Of Music And Other Anti-Utopian Essays (2008) (65)
Russian Music at Home and Abroad (2016) (57)
Music in the Western World: A History in Documents (1984) (50)
Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology (1993) (50)
Glinka's Ambiguous Legacy and the Birth Pangs of Russian Opera (1977) (46)
Catching Up with Rimsky-Korsakov (2011) (46)
Music in the late twentieth century (2010) (41)
Russian Folk Melodies in The Rite of Spring (1980) (40)
On Letting the Music Speak for Itself: Some Reflections on Musicology and Performance (1982) (35)
A Myth of the Twentieth Century: The Rite of Spring, the Tradition of the New, and "The Music Itself" (1995) (33)
Tradition and authority (1992) (31)
Review: Towards a New Poetics of Musical Influence by Kevin Korsyn; Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition by Joseph N. Straus (1993) (31)
Antoine Busnoys and the L'Homme armé Tradition (1986) (30)
‘The authenticity movement can become a positivistic purgatory, literalistic and dehumanizing’ (1984) (30)
Music in the nineteenth century (2010) (25)
Resisting the Ninth (1989) (25)
The Poietic Fallacy (2004) (25)
Liszt and Bad Taste (2013) (24)
Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century (2010) (24)
Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue (1992) (23)
Some Thoughts on the History and Historiography of Russian Music (1984) (17)
Agents and Causes and Ends, Oh My (2014) (16)
‘Entoiling the falconet’: Russian musical orientalism in context (1992) (14)
Chez Pétrouchka: Harmony and Tonality "chez" Stravinsky (1987) (14)
The Oxford History of Western Music, Volume 3: The Nineteenth Century (2005) (13)
Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2006) (12)
MOLCHANOV'S THE DAWNS ARE QUIET HERE (1976) (11)
Shostakovich Studies: Public lies and unspeakable truth interpreting Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony (1995) (10)
How the Acorn Took Root: A Tale of Russia (1983) (10)
Material Gains: Assessing Susan McClary (2009) (10)
Music and drama (1988) (9)
Opera and drama in Russia as preached and practiced in the 1860s (1981) (9)
Letter to the Editor from Richard Taruskin (1986) (8)
Reprise: The extraordinary revival of early music (1985) (7)
Non-Nationalists and Other Nationalists (2011) (6)
Sacred entertainments (2003) (6)
Is There a Baby in the Bathwater? (Part II) (2016) (6)
Where Things Stand Now (2011) (5)
Review: Speed Bumps (2005) (5)
Stravinsky and us (2003) (5)
A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism (2008) (5)
Five Operas and a Symphony (2008) (5)
Opera and Drama in Russia as Practiced and Preached in the 1860s (1983) (4)
The Musical Mystique (2008) (4)
REALISM AS PREACHED AND PRACTICED: THE RUSSIAN OPERA DIALOGUE (1970) (4)
Resisting the Ninth: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125 . Beethoven, Yvonne Kenny, Sarah Walker, Patrick Power, Petteri Salomaa, The Schutz Choir of London, The London Classical Players, Roger Norrington. (1989) (3)
Johannes Ockeghem and Jacob Obrecht : a guide to research (1990) (3)
Musorgsky vs. Musorgsky: The Versions of "Boris Godunov" (1984) (3)
37. The Musical Mystique: Defending Classical Music against Its Devotees (2019) (3)
The Early Music Debate: Ancients, Moderns, Postmoderns (1992) (3)
The Music of Alexander Scriabin James M. Baker Scriabin: Artist and Mystic Boris de Schloezer Nicolas Slonimsky (1988) (3)
34. No Ear for Music: The Scary Purity of John Cage (2019) (3)
Why You Cannot Leave Bartók Out (2006) (2)
Freedom from Violence and Lies : Essays on Russian Poetry and Music (2013) (2)
Christian themes in Russian opera: A millennial essay (1990) (2)
Is there a ‘Russia Abroad’ in Music? (2018) (2)
Crowd, Mob, and Nation in Boris Godunov: What Did Musorgsky Think, and Does It Matter? (2011) (2)
Where is Russia's New Music? (2008) (2)
Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices (2020) (2)
REPLY TO BROWN AND DEMPSTER (1989) (2)
Two Serendipities: Keynoting a Conference, “Music and Power” (2016) (2)
2. Only Time Will Cover the Taint (2019) (1)
Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist (2008) (1)
Customised Goods 3 (1997) (1)
Representation in Western Music: Afterword: What else? (2013) (1)
Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky (2012) (1)
D'ung aultre amer: Seventeen Settings in Two, Three, Four and Five Parts@@@Chansons: Forty-Five Settings in Original Notation, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Canonici 213 (1986) (1)
26. The Danger of Music and the Case for Control (2019) (1)
Art and politics in Prokofiev (1991) (1)
Five Operas and a Symphony: Words and Music in Russian Culture (review) (2006) (1)
THE MISSA ‘L'ARDANT DESIR’ (1990) (1)
25. Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? (2019) (1)
Chaikovsky and the Literary Folk (2008) (1)
Reconstructing Samuel Barber’s Christmas Cantata Christmas Eve: A Trio with Solos, Op. XIII (2014) (1)
Opera and Drama in Russia: The Case of Serov's Judith (1979) (1)
The Dark Side of the Moon (2008) (1)
Colloquy: Musicology and the Middlebrow (2020) (1)
40. She Do the Ring in Different Voices (2019) (1)
"Classicism" a la russe (2005) (1)
Back to Whom (2008) (1)
A New, New Boris? (2008) (1)
In Search of the “Good” Hindemith Legacy (2008) (1)
Essence or Context? (2019) (1)
No Ear for Music (2008) (1)
Fifteenth-Century Anonymous Chansons, Vol. 1, from Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS Q16@@@J'ay pris amours; 28 Settings in 2, 3, and 4 Parts (1984) (0)
Bartók and Stravinsky (2008) (0)
11. A Beethoven Season? (2019) (0)
15. A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century (2019) (0)
17. In The Rake’s Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All (2019) (0)
23. Stalin Lives On In The Concert Hall, But Why? (2019) (0)
28. Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart (2019) (0)
42. Setting Limits (a talk) (2019) (0)
18. From Fairy Tale To Opera In Four Moves (2019) (0)
Cursed Questions (2020) (0)
12. Which Way Is Up? On the sociology of taste (2020) (0)
6. “Alte Musik” or “Early Music”? On pseudohistory (2020) (0)
Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russian Contemporaries, 2 vols. By Peter Deane Roberts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. 162 and 234 pp. $89.95, hard bound set. (1994) (0)
Customised Goods 2 (1997) (0)
Yevreyi and Zhidy (2008) (0)
The Last Symphony (2008) (0)
COMPACT DISC REVIEW (2005) (0)
Russian musical orientalism: A postscript (1994) (0)
Carolyn Abbate. Unsung Voices. Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. 288 pp. (1992) (0)
20. Early Music: Truly Old-Fashioned at Last? (2019) (0)
‘Alte Musik’ or ‘Early Music’? (2011) (0)
1. The History of What? (2020) (0)
Shostakovich on top (2005) (0)
30. Five Operas And A Symphony (2019) (0)
16. Yevreyi And Zhidy A Memoir, A Survey, And A Plea (2019) (0)
A Suggestive Detail in Weber’s “Freischütz” (2017) (0)
Musical Lives and Times Examined (2023) (0)
Over the Barriers (1999) (0)
30. The First Modernist (2019) (0)
The New Shostakovich. By Ian MacDonald. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. 339 pp. $30.00, hard bound. (1993) (0)
36. North (Europe) By Northwest (America) (2019) (0)
The Golden Age of Kitsch (2008) (0)
22. Wagner’s Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party (2019) (0)
11. A New, New Boris? (2019) (0)
31. Hearing Cycles (2019) (0)
Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage by Inna Naroditskaya (review) (2014) (0)
Suite no. 1 in C minor ; and, Suite no. 2 in C major, for two treble and two bass viols (1983) (0)
6. A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck (2019) (0)
29. Shostakovich’S Bach A Pill To Purge Stalinism (2019) (0)
Calling All Pundits (2008) (0)
5. Optimism amid the Rubble (2019) (0)
13. A Walking Translation? On musicology east and west (2020) (0)
Did He Mean It (2015) (0)
10. Six Times Six: A Bach Suite Selection (2019) (0)
21. Bartók and Stravinsky: Odd Couple Reunited? (2019) (0)
18. Markevitch as Icarus (2019) (0)
15. Sex And Race, Russian Style (2019) (0)
Liszt’s problems, Bartók’s problems, my problems1 (2017) (0)
Et in Arcadia Ego (2008) (0)
33. The Golden Age of Kitsch (2019) (0)
4. Why Do They All Hate Horowitz? (2019) (0)
34. The Rising Soviet Mists Yield Up Another Voice (2019) (0)
OPR volume 6 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1994) (0)
6. Pathetic Symphonist Chaikovsky, Russia, Sexuality, And The Study Of Music (2019) (0)
Six limes Sixa (2008) (0)
24. Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks (2019) (0)
Resisting The Rite (2013) (0)
33. Current Chronicle Molchanov’S The Dawns Are Quiet Here (2019) (0)
Sex and Race, Russian Style (2008) (0)
28. Casting A Great Composer As A Fictional Hero (2019) (0)
41. Stravinsky and Us (2019) (0)
21. Tone, Style, And Form In Prokofieff’S Soviet Operas (2019) (0)
8. The Great Symbolist Opera (2019) (0)
SIMON P. KEEFE, ED. THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 pp. xvii + 798, isbn 978 0 521 66319 9 (2011) (0)
Solidarity with the long-departed: fifteenth-century echoes in twentieth-century music (2015) (0)
The Powers of Heaven: Orthodox Music of the 17 th and 18 th Centuries (2006) (0)
38. Revising Revision (2019) (0)
Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late (2008) (0)
Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers (2008) (0)
Taking it Personally (2008) (0)
Letter from Richard Taruskin (1987) (0)
14. Kitezh Religious Art Of An Atheist (2019) (0)
25. For Russian Music Mavens, A Fabled Beast Is Bagged (2019) (0)
Of Kings and Divas (2008) (0)
Review of Allen Forte. 1978. The Harmonic Organization of the Rite of Spring . New Haven: Yale University Press (2017) (0)
13. How Talented Composers Become Useless (2019) (0)
26. Restoring Comrade Roslavets (2019) (0)
Thesis of DLA Dissertation (2015) (0)
‘ Analyzing Schubert ’ : a description , or a prescription ? (2013) (0)
1. Et in Arcadia Ego Or, I Didn’t Know I Was Such a Pessimist until I Wrote This Thing (2019) (0)
Russian Originals, De- and Re-Edited (2008) (0)
Opera and drama in Russia : the preachment and practice of operatic esthetics in the eighteen sixties (1976) (0)
Stravinsky, Ditta, and Bartók’s First Piano Concerto (2020) (0)
Markevitch as Icarus (2008) (0)
31. The Dark Side of the Moon (2019) (0)
Stravinsky's Art and Craft (1988) (0)
Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad" op. 60 (1941) (1993) (0)
14. Making a Stand against Sterility (2019) (0)
35. Sacred Entertainments (2019) (0)
Prokofieff's Return (2008) (0)
Opera in Russia in the 1860s@@@Opera and Drama in Russia As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s (1983) (0)
Shostakovich's Bach (2008) (0)
Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations. By Caryl Emerson and Robert William Oldani. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiii, 339 pp. Index. Figures. Tables. Illustrations. Musical examples. Hard bound. (1994) (0)
Prokofiev’s Problems—and Ours (2020) (0)
When Serious Music Mattered: (2020) (0)
27. Ezra Pound: A Slim Sound Claim to Musical Immortality (2019) (0)
9. Chaikovsky As Symphonist (2019) (0)
24. The Last Symphony? (2019) (0)
The First Modernist (2008) (0)
Maddalena, Op. 13; Opera in One Act (1992) (0)
Correspondence. Bach's singers (2003) (0)
Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia (review) (2010) (0)
13. The Case For Rimsky-Korsakov (2019) (0)
3. Haydn and the Enlightenment? (2020) (0)
A Beethoven Season (2008) (0)
Customised Goods 1 (1997) (0)
Of Mice and Mendelssohn (2008) (0)
2. Did Somebody Say Censorship? (2020) (0)
The People Submissive, The People Rebellious (2011) (0)
Introduction Taking It Personally (2019) (0)
4. A Wonderful Beginning (2019) (0)
Teeth Will Be Provided: On Signifiers (2016) (0)
Christian Themes in Russian Opera (2008) (0)
8. Two Stabs at the Universe (2019) (0)
27. When Serious Music Mattered (2019) (0)
Review: A Collection of Russian Folk Songs by Nikolai Lvov, Ivan Prach, Malcolm Hamrick Brown (1990) (0)
22. Great Artists Serving Stalin Like A Dog (2019) (0)
5. Shall We Change the Subject? A Music Historian Reflects (2020) (0)
The Antiliterary Man (2008) (0)
5. Dargomïzhsky And His Stone Guest (2019) (0)
IS THIS A THING? (2021) (0)
32. Of Mice And Mendelssohn (2019) (0)
13. Réclame (The Loss of Russia, I) (1996) (0)
Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music (review) (2007) (0)
7. Does Nature Call the Tune? (2019) (0)
A Practical Guide to Historical Performance: The Renaissance (1990) (0)
9. Unanalyzable, Is It? (2020) (0)
To Cross that Sacred Edge (2008) (0)
Turania Revisited, with Lourié My Guide (2014) (0)
Bach's singers (2003) (0)
A Collection of Russian Folk Songs . Nikolai Lvov , Ivan Prach , Malcolm Hamrick Brown . (1990) (0)
For Ukraine, He's a Native Son, Regardless (2008) (0)
In mynen zin: 17 Settings in 2, 3, 4, and 5 Parts@@@Myn morken gaf: A Flemish Quodlibet and Related Pieces (1989) (0)
Reply to Ethan Haimo (1994) (0)
Music and Decadence in European Modernism: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe (review) (2011) (0)
Acts of Faith (1997) (0)
DIABOLUS IN MEMORIA OBSERVATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE TRITONE IN DEBUSSY’S ENDINGS (2020) (0)
32. Of Kings and Divas (2019) (0)
11. But Aren’t They All Invented? On tradition (2020) (0)
19. To Cross That Sacred Edge Notes On A Fiery Angel (2019) (0)

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