| Contents |
Shostakovich reception. Shostakovich reception history ; On Shostakovich ; The testimony debate / Michael Mishra -- The life and stylistic evolution of Shostakovich. Youth, revolution, and fame (1906-1926) ; The modernist and the iconoclast (1926-1931) -- Rise and fall, fall and rise (1932-1937) -- Maturity (1938-1947) ; DSCH (1948-1953) ; The state composer: compromise and dissent (1954-1965) ; I lived on-- in the hearts of my true friends (1966-1975) / Michael Mishra -- Analyzing Shostakovich. Shostakovich the dramatist: the nose and the Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District / James Morgan ; Shostakovich and Wozzeck's secret: toward the formation of a Shostakovich mode / David Haas ; Shostakovich's trademark form: the arch-sonata in the first movement of the Fifth Symphony / Michael Mishra ; The Twenty-four preludes and fugues, op. 87: structural model and manipulation / Andrew Grobengieser ; Shostakovich, the passacaglia, and serialism / Lyn Henderson ; The moving image: time and narrative in the Fifteenth Quartet / Richard Burke -- Aspects of Shostakovich. Shostakovich and the cinema / John Riley ; Shostakovich the pianist / Sofia Moshevich -- The Shostakovich legacy / Louis Blois. |
| Abstract |
Adopting a two-books-in-one format. The Shostakovich Companion combines a full-length, single-author examination of the life and compositional evolution of the Soviet Union's most famous composer; and a symposium in which a variety of analytical techniques is applied to selected Shostakovich works and genres. This is the first comprehensive English-language book in twenty-five years in which the primary emphasis is on musical issues, and the secondary emphasis is on the biographical and much-debated political issues. The Shostakovich Companion is divided into four parts. Part I considers the hermeneutic techniques that have been applied to Shostakovich's music, along with the various controversies surrounding his life and his relationship to Soviet politics. Part II comprises the book's central life-and-works discussion, uniting a comprehensive examination of Shostakovich's compositional evolution with a full account of his life. Coming from a variety of authors, the chapters in Part III demonstrate a cross-section of analytical techniques that may usefully be brought to bear upon Shostakovich's music. These range from literary and cinematically-based methods to the more traditional types of musical analysis. Part IV considers three independent but crucial aspects of Shostakovich's life: his contributions to the Soviet film industry, his career as a pianist, and his legacy and influence as a teacher. Provides a comprehensive discussion of Shostakovich's compositional evolution from his early to his late styles, interwoven with a supporting biography of the composer. This single-author discussion issupplemented with a small collection of diverse analytical writings from outside contributors |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-583) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2007043983 |
| ISBN | 9780313305030 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 031330503X (alk. paper) |
