Richard Taruskin

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Richard Taruskin is an American musicologist and music historian specializing in theory of performance, Russian music, twentieth-century music, nationalism, theory of modernism, and analysis. He has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including the 1978 Greenberg Prize, 1980 Alfred Einstein Award, 1987 Dent Medal, and the 1997 Kinkeldey Prize. He is currently on faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.

[edit] Publications

• The Oxford History of Western Music, 6 volumes, 2005
• Music in the Western World: A History in Documents
• Text and Act
• Stravinsky and the Russian Tradition
• Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue
• Defining Russia Musically.

[edit] External links

• Taruskin's Biographical page at the UC Berkeley music department website
• A New York Times article about Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music
• Taruskin's Letter to "Commentary"
• Settling Scores: Lingua Franca's 2001 profile of Taruskin