Shostakovich studies 2

Shostakovich studies 2

by Fairclough, Pauline

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Reflecting the recent transformation in Shostakovich studies, an international team of scholars sheds new light on Shostakovich's life and work. Essays range from detailed documentary studies of his private diary and his lost opera Orango to historical accounts of what really happened behind the scenes of the Composers' Union.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Shostakovich studies 2 / edited by Pauline Fairclough.

Summary

Reflecting the recent transformation in Shostakovich studies, an international team of scholars sheds new light on Shostakovich's life and work. Essays range from detailed documentary studies of his private diary and his lost opera Orango to historical accounts of what really happened behind the scenes of the Composers' Union.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2010
  • Edition:First paperback edition

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Notes

Series statement appears in the pre-publication record and on the publisher's page, but not in the book.

First published 2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xi, 323 pages : : music ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1316638707, 9781316638705, 9780521111188, 0521111188
  • oclc:ocn960493245
  • Dewey Decimal:780.92

Table of Contents

Introduction / Pauline Fairclough -- Interrupted masterpiece : Shostakovich's opera Orango : history and context / Ol'ga Digonskaya -- Notes on Shostakovich's diary / Ol'ga Dombrovskaya -- Mitya Shostakovich's first opus : dating the Scherzo op. 1 / Ol'ga Digonskaya -- Shostakovich and structural hearing / David Fanning -- Social realism, modernism and Dmitriy Shostakovich's Odna (Alone, 1929-1931) / Joan M. Titus -- Shostakovich's politics of D minor and its neighbours, 1931-1949 / Patrick McCreless -- Shostakovich and 'polyphonic' creativity : the Fourteenth symphony revisited / Kristian Hibberd -- The poet's echo, the composer's voice : monologic verse or dialogic song? / Philip Ross Bullock -- 'Muddle instead of music' in 1936 : cataclysm of musical administration / Simo Mikkonen -- Dolmatovskiy on Shostakovich : a last memoir / Pauline Fairclough -- Shostakovich, Proletkul't and RAPM / Levon Hakobian.

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