Taruskin R. Musorgsky. Eight Essays and an Epilogue

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. — 415 p. — ISBN: 0-691-09147-1.Foreword by Caryl Emerson
A Note on Transliteration
A Note on DatesPronouncing the Name
Introduction: Who Speaks for Musorgsky?
"Little Star": An Etude in the Folk Style
Handel, Shakespeare, and Musorgsky: The Sources and Limits of Russian Musical Realism
Serov and Musorgsky
The Present in the Past: Russian Opera and Russian Historiography, circa 1870
Musorgsky versus Musorgsky: The Versions of Boris Godunov
Appendix: Folk Texts in Boris Godunov
Slava!
The Power of the Black Earth: Notes on Khovanshchina
Appendix: The Khovanshchina Manuscripts
Sorochintsi Fair Revisited
Epilogue: Musorgsky in the Age of Glasnost’