A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth SymphonyAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 261 Seiten 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. |
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Analytical Approaches to the Fourth Symphony | 46 |
Allegretto poco moderato | 74 |
Moderato con moto | 141 |
LargoAllegro | 170 |
Conclusion | 229 |
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Adorno aesthetic Allegro allusion analysis Asafiev bars bass Beethoven Boris chord climax theme coda contemporary criticism culture discussed divertimento Dmitri Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitriy Shostakovich dramatic dramaturgy entry espress Example exposition Fanning Fifth Symphony figure finale Formalist Fourth Symphony fragment fugato funeral march Glikman Gustav Mahler harmonic hermeneutic Ibid ideological intonations Kabalevsky Kirill Kondrashin Lady Macbeth Leningrad light music lyrical Mahler Mahler's symphonies Mahlerian major Meyerhold Mikheyeva minor third Moderato Moscow motif motivic movement musical language Myaskovsky narrative oscillating Petrushka pizz polka Popov popular idioms Pravda première RAPM recapitulation relationship Roseberry Russian Sabinina scalic scherzo scherzo theme score second subject group Shebalin Shostakovich IV/1 Shostakovich-simfonist Shostakovich's music socialist realism Sollertinsky solo sonata form song Sovetskaya muzika Sovetskiy Kompozitor Soviet symphonism Stalin strings structure suggests Symphony's syuzhet Taruskin tempo tonal centre tone triple metre University Press waltz
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