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Additional Physical Format: | Shostakovich studies (NL-LeOCL)362757690 |
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Named Person: | Dmitrij Šostakovič; Dmitrij Šostakovič |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Fanning |
ISBN: | 0521452392 9780521452397 |
OCLC Number: | 769888555 |
Description: | IX, 280 p. : ill., muz. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: talking about eggs: musicology and Shostakovich David Fanning; 2. Public lies and unspeakable truth: interpreting Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony Richard Taruskin; 3. Form in Shostakovich's instrumental works Yuriy Kholopov; 4. Russian theorists on modality in Shostakovich's music Ellon D. Carpenter; 5.The cycle of structure and the cycle of meaning: the Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67 Patrick McCreless; 6. Leitmotif in Lady Macbeth David Fanning; 7. From Lady Macbeth to Katerina: Shostakovich's versions and revisions Laurel E. Fay; 8. The Golden Age: the true story of the premiere Manashir Yakubov; 9. 'And art made tongue-tied by authority': Shostakovich's song-cycles Dorothea Redepenning; 10. A debt repaid? Some observations on Shostakovich and his late-period recognition of Britten Eric Roseberry; 11. Shostakovich and Schnittke: the erosion of symphonic syntax Alexander Ivashkin; Index. |
Responsibility: | ed. by David Fanning. |
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'Shostakovich Studies is a stimulating and provocative collection that will in turn generate further appraisals of its subject.' Musical Times '... the best attempt to date to examine the importance of the music, starting from the music itself. It is also the most authoritative study of the composer available, bringing together essays by most of the top Russian-Soviet music and Shostakovich scholars ... Rather than simply adding to an overcrowded bookshelf, this one, by turning to the music raises the level of the debate on Shostakovich, pointing the way to future Russian-Soviet music scholarship.' Tempo Read more...

