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Book Synopsis Shostakovich, quartets, strings, 8, op. 110, C minor String quartet no. 8, op. 110. Parts. by : Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH
Download or read book Shostakovich, quartets, strings, 8, op. 110, C minor String quartet no. 8, op. 110. Parts. written by Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 by : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Download or read book String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 written by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis String quartet no. 8, op. 110 by : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Download or read book String quartet no. 8, op. 110 written by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, opus 110, the most loved of all Shostakovich's quartets, has a duration of about twenty minutes. Highly popular, it is performed more frequently than all of the other fourteen together. Despite its popularity, the work evokes feelings of gloom and melancholy. The Eighth is the only substantial work that Shostakovich composed outside Russia. It was written in 1960 whilst Shostakovich was visiting the former Communist State of East Germany. The anguish of the quartet, according to Shostakovich, reflected his thoughts on visiting the ruined city of Dresden. But this explanation did not long survive Shostakovich's death in 1975. In 1979 a book appeared in the West entitled 'Testimony' which claimed to be the composer's memoirs, told to, and subsequently edited by, an associate, Solomon Volkov. The book was highly controversial because it showed Shostakovich not as the passive supporter of the Soviet regime, the role in which Western critics had placed him, but as a closet dissident. Protests followed the book's publication. It was first accused of being a forgery (which in parts it was), but it was also hailed as reflecting the spirit of Shostakovich's thoughts (which it is now generally believed to do). - http://www.quartets.de/compositions/ssq08.html
Book Synopsis The String Quartets by : Dmitri Shostakovich
Download or read book The String Quartets written by Dmitri Shostakovich and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: String quartet no. 1 in C major, op. 49 -- String quartet no. 2 in A major, op. 68 -- String quartet no. 3 in F major, op. 73 -- String Quartet no. 4 in D major, op. 83 -- String quartet no. 5 in B flat major, op. 92 -- String quartet no. 6 in G major, op. 101 -- String quartet no. 7 in F sharp minor, op. 108 -- String quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110 -- String quartet no. 9 in E flat major, op. 117 -- String quartet no. 10 in A flat major, op. 118 -- String quartet no. 11 in F minor, op. 122 -- String quartet no. 12 in D flat major, op. 133 -- String quartet no. 13 in B flat minor, op. 138 -- String quartet no. 14 in F sharp major, op. 142 -- String quartet no. 15 in E flat minor, op144.
Download or read book Shostakovich written by Laurel E. Fay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shostakovich's life is a fascinating example of the paradoxes of living as an artist under totalitarian rule. Alone among his artistic peers, he survived successive Stalinist cultural purges and won the Stalin Prize five times, yet in 1948 he was dismissed from his conservatory teaching positions, and many of his works were banned from performance. He prudently censored himself, in one case putting aside a work based on Jewish folk poems. Under later regimes he balanced a career as a model Soviet - holding government positions and acting as an international ambassador - with his unflagging artistic ambitions."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by : Elizabeth Wilson
Download or read book Shostakovich: A Life Remembered written by Elizabeth Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer, drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. Elizabeth Wilson sheds light on the composer's creative process and his working life in music, and examines the enormous and enduring influence that Shostakovich has had on Soviet musical life.'The one indispensable book about the composer.' New York Times
Book Synopsis Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music by : Stephen Hefling
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music written by Stephen Hefling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic chamber music, and would be ideal for a seminar course on the subject or as an adjunct text for Introduction to Romantic Music courses. Plus, musicologists and students of 19th century music will find this to be an invaluable resource.
Book Synopsis Chamber Music by : Lucy Miller Murray
Download or read book Chamber Music written by Lucy Miller Murray and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners,Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world’s most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad array of chamber music works from the Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods—and an artful selection from the Baroque period of Johann Sebastian Bach’s works—Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners is both the perfect reference resource and chamber music primer for listeners. Covering over 500 works, Murray surveys in clear and simple language the historical and musical impact of some 130 composers—20 of them living. Notably, Chamber Music includes the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Bartok, and Shostakovich, as well as 35 piano trios of Haydn. It also provides critical information and assessments of works by composers not nearly so well known, both past and present. Entries appear in alphabetical order by composer, and, in every instance, give a brief introduction to the composer’s life and work. Of particular interest are the brief spotlight contributions, from well-known figures in the chamber music world, who focus on the performance experience or offer special knowledge of the works. This work is an ideal introduction and reference for students and scholars, new listeners, and enthusiasts of the chamber music tradition in Western music. Special contributors include: ·Charles Abramovic ·James Bonn ·Michael Brown ·Eugene Drucker ·James Dunham ·Daniel Epstein ·Ralph Evans ·Jeremy Gill ·Jake Heggie ·Paul Katz ·Bert Lucarelli ·Stuart Malina ·Robert Martin ·Peter Orth ·Jann Pasler ·Susan Salm ·David Shifrin ·Peter Sirotin/Ya-Ting Chang ·Arnold Steinhardt ·Kenneth Woods ·David Yang Phillip Ying
Book Synopsis Shostakovich and His World by : Laurel E. Fay
Download or read book Shostakovich and His World written by Laurel E. Fay and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations--historical, cultural, and political--that forged them. The collection contains documents that appear for the first time in English. Letters that young "Miti" wrote to his mother offer a glimpse into his dreams and ambitions at the outset of his career. Shostakovich's answers to a 1927 questionnaire reveal much about his formative tastes in the arts and the way he experienced the creative process. His previously unknown letters to Stalin shed new light on Shostakovich's position within the Soviet artistic elite. The essays delve into neglected aspects of Shostakovich's formidable legacy. Simon Morrison provides an in-depth examination of the choreography, costumes, décor, and music of his ballet The Bolt and Gerard McBurney of the musical references, parodies, and quotations in his operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki. David Fanning looks at Shostakovich's activities as a pedagogue and the mark they left on his students' and his own music. Peter J. Schmelz explores the composer's late-period adoption of twelve-tone writing in the context of the distinctively "Soviet" practice of serialism. Other contributors include Caryl Emerson, Christopher H. Gibbs, Levon Hakobian, Leonid Maximenkov, and Rosa Sadykhova. In a provocative concluding essay, Leon Botstein reflects on the different ways listeners approach the music of Shostakovich.
Book Synopsis In the Process of Becoming by : Janet Schmalfeldt
Download or read book In the Process of Becoming written by Janet Schmalfeldt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's ground-breaking account of the development of this Beethoven-Hegelian tradition restores to the term "form" some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural changes were yielding new relationships between composers and their listeners, and when music itself-in particular, instrumental music-became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation. Precedents for Adorno's and Dahlhaus's concept of form as process arise in the Athenäum Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel and in the Encyclopaedia Logic of Hegel. The metaphor common to all these sources is the notion of becoming; it is the idea of form coming into being that this study explores in respect to music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann. A critical assessment of Dahlhaus's preoccupation with the opening of Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata serves as the author's starting point for the translation of philosophical ideas into music-analytical terms-ones that encourage listening "both forward and backward," as Adorno has recommended. Thanks to the ever-growing familiarity of late eighteenth-century audiences with formal conventions, composers could increasingly trust that performers and listeners would be responsive to striking formal transformations. The author's analytic method strives to capture the dynamic, quasi-narrative nature of such transformations, rather than only their end results. This experiential approach to the perception of form invites listeners and especially performers to participate in the interpretation of processes by which, for example, a brooding introduction-like opening must inevitably become the essential main theme in Schubert's Sonata, Op. 42, or in which tremendous formal expansions in movements by Mendelssohn offer a dazzling opportunity for multiple retrospective reinterpretations. Above all, In the Process of Becoming proposes new ways of hearing beloved works of the romantic generation as representative of their striving for novel, intensely self-reflective modes of communication.
Book Synopsis The Classical Music Experience by : Julius H. Jacobson
Download or read book The Classical Music Experience written by Julius H. Jacobson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers sixty of the world's most celebrated composers, from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to Tchaikovsky, Gershwin and Bernstein. It weaves five hundred years of history and music into a rich tapestry of sound and story.
Book Synopsis Music for Silenced Voices by : Wendy Lesser
Download or read book Music for Silenced Voices written by Wendy Lesser and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. "Music for Silenced Voices" looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of his fifteen quartets, the works which his widow characterized as a "diary, the story of his soul." The silences and the voices were of many kinds, including the political silencing of adventurous writers, artists, and musicians during the Stalin era; the lost voices of Shostakovich's operas (a form he abandoned just before turning to string quartets); and the death-silenced voices of his close friends, to whom he dedicated many of these chamber works.Wendy Lesser has constructed a fascinating narrative in which the fifteen quartets, considered one at a time in chronological order, lead the reader through the personal, political, and professional events that shaped Shostakovich's singular, emblematic twentieth-century life. Weaving together interviews with the composer's friends, family, and colleagues, as well as conversations with present-day musicians who have played the quartets, Lesser sheds new light on the man and the musician. One of the very few books about Shostakovich that is aimed at a general rather than an academic audience, "Music for Silenced Voices" is a pleasure to read; at the same time, it is rigorously faithful to the known facts in this notoriously complicated life. It will fill readers with the desire to hear the quartets, which are among the most compelling and emotionally powerful monuments of the past century's music.
Author :University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance Publisher :UM Libraries ISBN 13 : Total Pages :752 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis School of Music, Theatre & Dance (University of Michigan) Publications by : University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Download or read book School of Music, Theatre & Dance (University of Michigan) Publications written by University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1880 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes miscellaneous newsletters, bulletins, programs, brochures, articles, calendars, histories, and posters.
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Book Synopsis School of Music Programs by : University of Michigan. School of Music
Download or read book School of Music Programs written by University of Michigan. School of Music and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chamber Music written by Mark A. Radice and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough overview and history of chamber music
Book Synopsis Music of the Great Composers by : Patrick Kavanaugh
Download or read book Music of the Great Composers written by Patrick Kavanaugh and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique guide to enhance and enrich your enjoyment of classical music, this book is for music lovers who want to better understand the works of the masters.
