The Cambridge Companion To Shostakovich
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Author | : Pauline Fairclough |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139827383 |
As the Soviet Union's foremost composer, Shostakovich's status in the West has always been problematic. Regarded by some as a collaborator, and by others as a symbol of moral resistance, both he and his music met with approval and condemnation in equal measure. The demise of the Communist state has, if anything, been accompanied by a bolstering of his reputation, but critical engagement with his multi-faceted achievements has been patchy. This Companion offers a starting point and a guide for readers who seek a fuller understanding of Shostakovich's place in the history of music. Bringing together an international team of scholars, the book brings research to bear on the full range of Shostakovich's musical output, addressing scholars, students and all those interested in this complex, iconic figure.
Author | : David Fanning |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521028318 |
These eleven essays lay a foundation for a proper understanding of Shostakovich's musical language and provide new insights into issues surrounding his composition.
Author | : Pauline Fairclough |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521111188 |
A collection of authoritative and up-to-date scholarship on one of the twentieth century's most important and enigmatic composers.
Author | : Julian Horton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521884985 |
A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.
Author | : David Clampitt |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1580463223 |
Leading authorities explore, in direct and accessible language, chamber-music masterpieces by twenty-one prominent composers since 1900.
Author | : Laurel E. Fay |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0691232199 |
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations--historical, cultural, and political--that forged them. The collection contains documents that appear for the first time in English. Letters that young "Miti" wrote to his mother offer a glimpse into his dreams and ambitions at the outset of his career. Shostakovich's answers to a 1927 questionnaire reveal much about his formative tastes in the arts and the way he experienced the creative process. His previously unknown letters to Stalin shed new light on Shostakovich's position within the Soviet artistic elite. The essays delve into neglected aspects of Shostakovich's formidable legacy. Simon Morrison provides an in-depth examination of the choreography, costumes, décor, and music of his ballet The Bolt and Gerard McBurney of the musical references, parodies, and quotations in his operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki. David Fanning looks at Shostakovich's activities as a pedagogue and the mark they left on his students' and his own music. Peter J. Schmelz explores the composer's late-period adoption of twelve-tone writing in the context of the distinctively "Soviet" practice of serialism. Other contributors include Caryl Emerson, Christopher H. Gibbs, Levon Hakobian, Leonid Maximenkov, and Rosa Sadykhova. In a provocative concluding essay, Leon Botstein reflects on the different ways listeners approach the music of Shostakovich.
Author | : Julian Horton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107469708 |
Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.
Author | : Laura Hamer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-05-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1108470289 |
An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.
Author | : Avery T. Sharp |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0415994195 |
This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.
Author | : Ben Etherington |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-11-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108471374 |
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.