Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich

Name: Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich
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ISBN: 9780754658849

ISBN-10: 0754658848

ISBN-13: 9780754658849

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sarah Reichardt, Sarah Jane Reichardt

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Since the publication of Solomon Volkov's disputed memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his music has been subject to heated debate concerning how the musical meaning of his works can be understood in relationship to the composer's life within

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/11/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 238
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.53" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Introduction: musical meaning and analytical tools


Shostakovich and the modern subject


The end that is no end: cadences and closure in the 6th string quartet, Op.101 (1956)


The space between: codas, death and the 7th string quartet, Op108 (1960)


Musical hauntings: the ritual of conjuration in Shostakovich's 8th string quartet, Op.110 (1960)


The indivisible remainder: novelization in the 9th string quartet, Op.117 (1964)


Epilogue: music and the real


Bibliography


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