Contemplating Shostakovich : life, music and film
Music Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, sähkökirjat Criticism, interpretation, etc
Ashgate
2012
EISBN 9781283738880
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Music Examples; Transliteration Note; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Part I: Music and Style; 1 Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on the Significance of Words and Symbols in Shostakovich's Music; 2 Shostakovich, Old Believers and New Minimalists; 3 Five Satires (Pictures of the Past) by Dmitrii Shostakovich (op. 109):The Musical Unity of a Vocal Cycle; 4 Moving Towards an Understanding of Shostakovich's Viola Sonata; Part II: Film; 5 Madness by Design: Hamlet's State as Defined Through Music" 6 Stalin (and Lenin) at the Movies.
7 Hamlet, King Lear and Their Companions:The Other Side of Film MusicPart III: Life and Documents; 8 Arrangements for Piano Four Hands in Dmitrii Shostakovich's Creative Work and Performance; 9 Shostakovich and Soviet Eros: Forbidden Fruit in the Realm of Communal Communism; 10 A Soviet Opera in America; 11 Shostakovich in the Mid-1930s: Operatic Plans and Implementations (Regarding the Attribution of an Unknown Autograph)" Select Bibliography; Index.
Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both depth and range, into the nature of the composer's working circumstances and of his response to them.
7 Hamlet, King Lear and Their Companions:The Other Side of Film MusicPart III: Life and Documents; 8 Arrangements for Piano Four Hands in Dmitrii Shostakovich's Creative Work and Performance; 9 Shostakovich and Soviet Eros: Forbidden Fruit in the Realm of Communal Communism; 10 A Soviet Opera in America; 11 Shostakovich in the Mid-1930s: Operatic Plans and Implementations (Regarding the Attribution of an Unknown Autograph)" Select Bibliography; Index.
Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both depth and range, into the nature of the composer's working circumstances and of his response to them.
