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Shostakovich and His World / ed. by Laurel E. Fay.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Bard Music Festival ; 52Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 6 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780691232195
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  • 780/.92 22
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Note on Transliteration -- PART I DOCUMENTS -- Shostakovich: Letters to His Mother, 1923-1927 -- Responses of Shostakovich to a Questionnaire on the Psychology of the Creative Process -- Stalin and Shostakovich: Letters to a "Friend" -- "The Phenomenon of the Seventh": A Documentary Essay on Shostakovich's "War" Symphony -- PART II ESSAYS -- Shostakovich as Industrial Saboteur: Observations on The Bolt -- The Nose and the Fourteenth Symphony: An Affinity of Opposites -- Shostakovich and the Russian Literary Tradition -- Fried Chicken in the Bird-Cherry Trees -- Shostakovich and His Pupils -- Shostakovich's "Twelve-Tone" Compositions and the Politics and Practice of Soviet Serialism -- Listening to Shostakovich -- INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS
Summary: 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 "ations 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Note on Transliteration -- PART I DOCUMENTS -- Shostakovich: Letters to His Mother, 1923-1927 -- Responses of Shostakovich to a Questionnaire on the Psychology of the Creative Process -- Stalin and Shostakovich: Letters to a "Friend" -- "The Phenomenon of the Seventh": A Documentary Essay on Shostakovich's "War" Symphony -- PART II ESSAYS -- Shostakovich as Industrial Saboteur: Observations on The Bolt -- The Nose and the Fourteenth Symphony: An Affinity of Opposites -- Shostakovich and the Russian Literary Tradition -- Fried Chicken in the Bird-Cherry Trees -- Shostakovich and His Pupils -- Shostakovich's "Twelve-Tone" Compositions and the Politics and Practice of Soviet Serialism -- Listening to Shostakovich -- INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS

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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 "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 "ations 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.

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