| Description |
xxviii, 285 pages : illustration, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Music and style. Through the looking glass : reflections on the signficance of words and symbols in Shostakovich's music / Elizabeth Wilson ; Shostakovich, old believers and new minimalists / Alexander Ivashkin ; Five satires (Pictures of the past) by Dmitrii Shostakovich (op. 109) : the musical unity of a vocal cycle / Gilbert C. Rappaport ; Moving towards an understanding of Shostakovich's viola sonata / Ivan Sokolov ; (translated by Elizabeth Wilson) -- Part II. Film. Madness by design : Hamlet's state as defined through music / Eric Heine ; Stalin (and Lenin) at the movies / John Riley ; Hamlet, King Lear and their companions : The other side of film music / Olga Dombrovskaia -- Part III. Life and documents. Arrangements for piano four hands in Dmitrii Shostakovich's creative work and performance / Inna Barsova ; Shostakovich and soviet eros : Forbidden fruit in the realm of communal communism / Vladimir Orlov ; A Soviet opera in America / Terry Klefstad ; Shostakovich in the mid-1930s : Operatic plans and implementations (regarding the attribution of an unknown autograph) / Olga Digonskaia (translated by Stephen Dinkeldein) |
| Language |
In English; 2 contributions translated from Russian. |
| Subject |
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Motion picture music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture music. |
| Added Author |
Ivashkin, Alexander, 1948-2014.
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Kirkman, Andrew, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9781409439370 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1409439372 hardcover alkaline paper |
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