Russian Symphony

Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763680541

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Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson Pdf

A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943–1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and—eventually—one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens—the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power—and layered meaning—of music in beleaguered lives. Symphony for the City of the Dead is a masterwork thrillingly told and impeccably researched by National Book Award–winning author M. T. Anderson.

Author : Elena Dubinets
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253057808

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Russian Composers Abroad by Elena Dubinets Pdf

As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes. Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these émigrés, especially those who left from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic identities played out in their music. Elena Dubinets provides a journey through the complexities of identity formation and cultural production under globalization and migration, elucidating sociological perspectives of the post-Soviet world that have caused changes in composers' outlooks, strategies, and rankings. Russian Composers Abroad is an illuminating study of creative ideas that are often shaped by the exigencies of financing and advancement rather than just by the vision of the creators and the demands of the public.

Author : Dmitrii Dmitrievich 190 Shostakovich
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014028795

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Russian Symphony; Thoughts About Tchaikovsky by Dmitrii Dmitrievich 190 Shostakovich Pdf

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Author : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015007872891

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Russian Symphony by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich Pdf

Author : Gerald Abraham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571307289

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On Russian Music by Gerald Abraham Pdf

First published in 1939, On Russian Music was conceived by Gerald Abraham as a sequel to his earlier Studies in Russian Music (1935, also in Faber Finds), and complements the previous work in many useful respects. Glinka moves to the forefront via close study of both of his operas. A historical account of the composition of Borodin's Prince Igor enriches the critical study made in the first book. And chapters on Mlada and Tsar Saltan round out Abraham's appreciations of the major operas of Rimsky-Korsakov. There are also critical and historical essays on works by Mussorgsky, Dargomïzhsky, Tchaikovsky and other composers, and analyses that, in their time, threw new light on the programmatic meaning of such well-known compositions as Scheherazade and the Path étique symphony. The book is superbly illustrated with music examples throughout.

Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351577960

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A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony by Pauline Fairclough Pdf

Composed in 1935-36 and intended to be his artistic 'credo', Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony was not performed publicly until 1961. Here, Dr Pauline Fairclough tackles head-on one of the most significant and least understood of Shostakovich's major works. She argues that the Fourth Symphony was radically different from its Soviet contemporaries in terms of its structure, dramaturgy, tone and even language, and therefore challenged the norms of Soviet symphonism at a crucial stage of its development. With the backing of prominent musicologists such as Ivan Sollertinsky, the composer could realistically have expected the premiere to have taken place, and may even have intended the symphony to be a model for a new kind of 'democratic' Soviet symphonism. Fairclough meticulously examines the score to inform a discussion of tonal and thematic processes, allusion, paraphrase and reference to musical types, or intonations. Such analysis is set deeply in the context of Soviet musical culture during the period 1932-36, involving Shostakovich's contemporaries Shebalin, Myaskovsky, Kabalevsky and Popov. A new method of analysis is also advanced here, where a range of Soviet and Western analytical methods are informed by the theoretical work of Shostakovich's contemporaries Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Tomashevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin and Ivan Sollertinsky, together with Theodor Adorno's late study of Mahler. In this way, the book will significantly increase an understanding of the symphony and its context.

Author : Boris Gasparov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300133165

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Five Operas and a Symphony by Boris Gasparov Pdf

In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources within the ideological and cultural contexts of their times. Each musical work becomes a tableau representing a moment in Russian history, and together the works form a coherent story of ideological and aesthetic trends as they evolved in Russia from the time of Pushkin to the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s. Gasparov discusses Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla (1842), Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (1871) and Khovanshchina (1881), Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (1878) and The Queen of Spades (1890), and Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony (1934). Offering new interpretations to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these important works, Gasparov also demonstrates how Russian music and cultural history illuminate one another.

Author : Dmitri Shostakovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0781296277

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Russian Symphony - Thoughts about Tchaikovsky by Dmitri Shostakovich Pdf

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Communism
ISBN : MINN:31951D02174675N

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Investigation of Communist Propaganda by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States Pdf

Author : Levon Hakobian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317091875

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Music of the Soviet Era: 1917-1991 by Levon Hakobian Pdf

This volume is a comprehensive and detailed survey of music and musical life of the entire Soviet era, from 1917 to 1991, which takes into account the extensive body of scholarly literature in Russian and other major European languages. In this considerably updated and revised edition of his 1998 publication, Hakobian traces the strikingly dramatic development of the music created by outstanding and less well-known, ‘modernist’ and ‘conservative’, ‘nationalist’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ composers of the Soviet era. The book’s three parts explore, respectively, the musical trends of the 1920s, music and musical life under Stalin, and the so-called ’Bronze Age’ of Soviet music after Stalin’s death. Music of the Soviet Era: 1917–1991 considers the privileged position of music in the USSR in comparison to the written and visual arts. Through his examination of the history of the arts in the Soviet state, Hakobian’s work celebrates the human spirit’s wonderful capacity to derive advantage even from the most inauspicious conditions.

Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521884983

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The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony by Julian Horton Pdf

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

Author : Christopher Tarrant,Natalie Wild
Publisher : Faber Music Ltd
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571592142

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The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler by Christopher Tarrant,Natalie Wild Pdf

The full eBook version of The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler in fixed-layout format. The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler is a fascinating and accessible guide that considers the development of the symphony from a number of different perspectives: analytical, historical, and critical. Exploring important milestones, touchpoints, events, key works, and the composers that surround the genre, it also includes a composer timeline, detailed case studies and comprehensive music examples. This handy and informative book is ideal for GCSE, A-Level, and undergraduate music students, as well as anyone wanting to study and learn more about the genre. Christopher Tarrant is Lecturer in Music Analysis at Newcastle University. He received his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London and now teaches and writes about concert music of the long nineteenth century with a special emphasis on theory of form and the Nordic symphony. Christopher is also a violinist and conductor. Natalie Wild is Director of Research and Deputy Director of Music at the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST). Her research focuses on the role a classical music education can play in breaking down social barriers. Natalie has taught both GCSE and A-Level Music for many years as Head of Music in various inner-city schools.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0691070652

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Defining Russia Musically by Richard Taruskin Pdf

with an air of alterity--sensed, exploited, bemoaned, reveled in, traded on, and defended against both from within and from without." The author's goal is to explore this assumption of otherness in an all-encompassing work that re-creates the cultural contexts of the folksong anthologies of the 1700s, the operas, symphonies, and ballets of the 1800s, the modernist masterpieces of the 1900s, and the hugely fraught but ambiguous products of the Soviet period. Taruskin begins by showing how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. He then examines how Russia as a whole shaped its identity in contrast to an "East" during the age of its imperialist expansion, and in contrast to two different musical "Wests," Germany and Italy, during the formative years of its national consciousness.

Author : Oscar Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2506 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822019583707

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The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by Oscar Thompson Pdf

Author : Valeria Z. Nollan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781666917604

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Sergei Rachmaninoff by Valeria Z. Nollan Pdf

Valeria Z. Nollan’s biography of perhaps the finest pianist of the twentieth century plunges readers into Rachmaninoff’s complex inner world. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul is the first biography of Rachmaninoff in English that presents him in the fullness of his Russian identity. As someone whose own life in Russian emigration ran in parallel ways to Rachmaninoff’s own—and whose meetings with the composer’s grandson in Switzerland informed her work—Nollan brings important cultural insights into her observations of the activities of this generation of creative artists. She also traces the intricacies of Rachmaninoff’s relations with the women closest to him—whose imprints are palpable in his compositions—and introduces a mystery woman whose existence challenges our established narrative of his life.