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Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands…
The purpose of this project is to highlight the piano compositions of the extraordinarily diverse period in Russian music between the emergence of pre-Revolutionary modernism in the early twentieth century and the publication of the “Muddle Instead of Music” article in 1936, the…
An obedient daughter, a scorned lover, a raving madwoman—each of these epithets is an appropriate description of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Character studies of Hamlet range from completely passing over her character to intense psychoanalyses of Op…
El enfoque de este libro es la ironía musical. Ofrece nuevas metodologías para el análisis semiótico de la música, e inspecciona los mensajes irónicos en la música de Shostakovich con independencia de sesgo político y biográfico. Su acercamiento a la música es interdisciplinario…