Shostakovich and His World (eBook)

Laurel E. Fay (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
432 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23219-5 (ISBN)

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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 "e;Miti"e; 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, decor, 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 "e;Soviet"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Zusatzinfo: 6 halftones.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: absurdism • Agitprop • Allusion • Andreev, Andrei • Anthony Phillips • Atonality • Atovmian, Levon • Babadzhanian, Arno • Ballet • Baltin, Aleksandr • Banality (sculpture series) • Bard Music Festival • Basner, Veniamin • BBC Radio 3 • Belov, Gennadii • Bloody Sunday • Bolshoi Theatre • Boris Tishchenko • Brahms, Johannes • Busoni, Ferruccio • Cambridge University Press • Carmen (Bizet) • Carmina Bur ana (Orff) • Chekhov, Anton • Chervinsky, Mikhail • Chugaev, Aleksandr • Clarinet • Cold War • Composer • Conducting • Conservatism • contemporary classical music • Critical Realism • Dante Alighieri • Dargomyzhsky, Aleksandr • Denisov, Edison • Dmitri Shostakovich • Dostoevsky, Fyodor • Dunaevsky, Isaak • Epaneshnikova (singer) • Erdman, Nikolai • Erenberg, Vladimir • Eugene Onegin • Evlakhov, Orest • Fanning, David • Felix Mendelssohn • Film score • for example • Futurism • Galileo (Brecht) • Gasparov, Mikhail • Genre • Goossens, Eugene • Gould, Glenn • Grigorev, Andrei • Gusev, Pyotr • Gustav Mahler • Hakobian, Levon • Hear the Music • Heine, Heinrich • Historicism • idealism • Ideology • Igor Stravinsky • Illustration • Impressionism • Improvisation • Incidental music • Indiana University Press • Irony • Ivanonva, Vera • Keller, Hans • Khachaturian, Aram • Kholopov, Iurii • Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera) • Leopold Stokowski • Libretto • Literary criticism • Literature • Ludwig van Beethoven • Lutoslawski, Witold • Mahler, Gustav • Marina Tsvetaeva • Mikhail Bakhtin • Modest Mussorgsky • Mstislav Rostropovich • Muddle Instead of Music • musical language • Musical Theatre • Music Director • musician • Music Is • musicology • music school • music theory • Muzfond • My Father • narrative • national anthem • Nazirova, Elmira • Nikolai Leskov • OBERIU • operetta • orchestra • Orchestration • Order of Lenin • Oxford University Press • Panov, Valerii • Parody • Pastiche • Paul Hindemith • Penderecki, Krzysztof • Philosopher • Phrase (music) • Poetry • Polovtsian Dances • Prince Igor • Prose • pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky • Rehearsal • Richard Strauss • Richard Taruskin • Russian Avant-garde • Russian Literature • Russian opera • Satire • Schumann • Sergei Prokofiev • Singing • skaz • Socialist Realism • Solomon Volkov • song cycle • Songs and Dances of Death • Spelling • Symphonic Poem • Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) • The Bedbug • The Limpid Stream • The Musical Quarterly • The Various • Tikhon Khrennikov • tonality • Transliteration • Tribute To • Triumphant (Get 'Em) • Twelve-tone technique • University of California Press • V. • Vladimir Mayakovsky • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23219-9 / 0691232199
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23219-5 / 9780691232195