Word: tartan
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...music it is the story of this early Czar of Russia, and eminently fitting is the music which Moussorgsky was inspired to write. In it he has embodied the fierce old Muscovite Boyar himself; in it is the spirit of the half Oriental Princes who fought to drive the Tartan hordes from the gates; in it and through it is the note of something primitive, something untamed like the bleakness of the steppes and the snowfields. From the opening curtain to the great climatic scene of Borl's coronation, when through the crashes of the belt and the shouts...