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A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,763
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A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony (Paperback): Pauline Fairclough

A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony (Paperback)

Pauline Fairclough

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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.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2016
First published: 2006
Authors: Pauline Fairclough
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-26470-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
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LSN: 1-138-26470-9
Barcode: 9781138264700

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