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Title

Shostakovich in context / edited by Rosamund Bartlett.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Bartlett, Rosamund.

Description

xviii, 224 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This interdisciplinary volume seeks to present Shostakovich and his music in many different contexts, in order to establish a more rounded picture of the composer's legacy. The authors of the articles collected here are leading scholars in Russian music and literature who have drawn on unpublished correspondence, archival sources, and the latest research to present important new information about each decade of Shostakovich's career."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 > Congresses

Note

• Papers, given principally at a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994, entitled Shostakovich, the man and his age; four papers translated from Russian were given at a Shostakovich conference held in St. Petersburg, 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Shostakovich and us / Richard Taruskin -- Shostakovich in harmony: untranslatable messages / David Fanning -- Shostakovich's literary style / Svetlana Savenko -- Shostakovich, LASM, and Asafiev / Laurel E. Fay -- Shostakovich as reflected in his letters to Ivan Sollertinsky / Lyudmila Mikheyeva-Sollertinskaya -- Between 'social demands' and the 'music of grand passions': the years 1934-1937 in the life of Dmitry Shostakovich / Inna Barsova -- Shostakovich and Kuchonykh -- Shostakovich's Eighth: C minor Symphony against the grain / David Haas -- Shostakovich's Anti-formalist Rayok: a history of the work's composition and its musical and literary sources / Manashir Yakubov -- A new insight into the Tenth symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich / Nelly Kravetz -- Shostakovich and Britten: some parallels / Lyudmila Kovnatskaya -- Shostakovich, Tsvetaeva, Pushkin, Musorgsky: songs and dances of death and survival / Caryl Emerson -- Shostakovich and Chekhov / Rosamund Bartlett.

Call Number

JME 00-400

ISBN

• 0198166664 (hb)
• 9780198166665 (hb)

LCCN

99047564

OCLC

42397957

Title

Shostakovich in context / edited by Rosamund Bartlett.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Bartlett, Rosamund.

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Online version: Shostakovich in context. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)639395842

Research Call Number

JME 00-400