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Soviet Film Music (Hardcover)
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Soviet Film Music (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Music Studies
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In the years 1917 to 1991, despite unfavorable prevailing
conditions, there were outstanding achievements in the music
created for the cinema in the Soviet Union. Perhaps in no other
country was film music associated with so many distinguished
composers: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich, Isaak Dunayevsky,
Georgy Sviridov, Aram Khachaturian, Alfred Schnittke, Nikolai
Karetnikov, Edward Artemyev, Edison Denisov, and Sofia
Gubaidulina.
They were ready to accept film directors' invitations because they
considered the cinema to be a perfect laboratory for testing the
concepts and themes for future operas, symphonies, oratorios, and
other large-scale compositions.
A remarkable characteristic of Soviet film music was the appearance
of successful director - composer collaborations, such as the
famous 'duets' of Eisenstein - Prokofiev, Kozintsev - Shostakovich
and Tarkovsky - Artemyev.
This fascinating volume is the first attempt at a historical
analysis of Soviet film music - a unique and full
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