Shostakovich Studies
Shostakovich Studies

Author: David Fanning

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780521028318

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These eleven essays lay a foundation for a proper understanding of Shostakovich's musical language and provide new insights into issues surrounding his composition.

History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Volume 1
History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Volume 1

Author: Nikolai Findeizen

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-02-07

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 0253026377

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In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history. Volume 2 of Findeizen's landmark study surveys music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Catherine II, music in Russian domestic and public life in the second half of the 18th century, and the variety and vitality of Russian music at the end of the 18th century.

Nikolay Myaskovsky
Nikolay Myaskovsky

Author: Patrick Zuk

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1783275758

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Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky. Zuk's account is far removed from Cold War clichés of the regimented Soviet artist or sentimental stereotypes of persecuted genius.

Nietzsche's Orphans
Nietzsche's Orphans

Author: Rebecca Mitchell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0300216491

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A prevailing belief among Russia’s cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia’s “Silver Age,” author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how “Nietzsche’s orphans” strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution.

Form vs. Work
Form vs. Work

Author: Ildar D. Khannanov

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1003846882

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The antinomy of musical work and musical form has been central for music theory for centuries. Musical work is complete and all-inclusive, which makes it an ideal object of study. However, the teaching of musical form, albeit selective, is self-sufficient and epistemologically sovereign. The book offers both the historical overview and the analytical discourse on this antinomy in both Western and Russian perspectives. It presents an insider’s view of the latter and contains materials never previously published.

Shostakovich in Context
Shostakovich in Context

Author: Rosamund Bartlett

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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'this collection makes a very worthwhile contribution to Shostakovich studies, for the brilliance of some of the contributions, for the new information, and for the excellent photographic illustrations' -SEERThis volume presents recent research into Dmitry Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) and work by leading scholars, and aims to place the composer in a variety of different contexts: musical, literary, and historical. The contributors are musicologists, Russian literature specialists, biographers, and cultural historians, and their diverse fields of expertise are reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of the materials collected here, contributing substantially to our knowledge of the composer.