Contemplating Shostakovich : life, music and film / edited by Alexander Ivashkin ; Andrew Kirkman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ivashkin, Alexander, 1948-2014.

Kirkman, Andrew, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation.

Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich.

Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975.

Music--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Music.

Motion picture music.

Criticism and interpretation.

Soviet Union.

Motion picture music--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 285 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]

Language Note:

In English; 2 contributions translated from Russian.

Summary:

Music scholars in and out of Russia explore Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) from perspectives of music and style, film, and life and documents. Among their topics are reflections on the significance of words and symbols in his music, the musical unity of a vocal cycle in Five Satires (Pictures of the Past) (op. 109), Hamlet's state as defined through music, arrangements for piano four hands in his creative work and performance, eros as forbidden fruit in the realm of communal communism, and a Soviet opera in America. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part I. Music and style. Through the looking glass : reflections on the signficance of words and symbols in Shostakovich's music / Elizabeth Wilson ; Shostakovich, old believers and new minimalists / Alexander Ivashkin ; Five satires (Pictures of the past) by Dmitrii Shostakovich (op. 109) : the musical unity of a vocal cycle / Gilbert C. Rappaport ; Moving towards an understanding of Shostakovich's viola sonata / Ivan Sokolov ; (translated by Elizabeth Wilson)

Part II. Film. Madness by design : Hamlet's state as defined through music / Eric Heine ; Stalin (and Lenin) at the movies / John Riley ; Hamlet, King Lear and their companions : The other side of film music / Olga Dombrovskaia

Part III. Life and documents. Arrangements for piano four hands in Dmitrii Shostakovich's creative work and performance / Inna Barsova ; Shostakovich and soviet eros : Forbidden fruit in the realm of communal communism / Vladimir Orlov ; A Soviet opera in America / Terry Klefstad ; Shostakovich in the mid-1930s : Operatic plans and implementations (regarding the attribution of an unknown autograph) / Olga Digonskaia (translated by Stephen Dinkeldein)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409439370

1409439372

OCLC:

793726637