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A Shostakovich Companion
Michael Mishra
ISBN:
0-313-30503-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-313-30503-0
DOI:
DOI:10.1336/031330503X
640 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication:
6/30/2008
List Price:
$170.00
(
UK Sterling Price: £117.95
)
Availability:
In Stock
Media Type:
Hardcover
Trim Size:
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
The Arts
»
Classical Music
The Arts
»
Music (General)
Reviews:
"The book is noteworthy for its evenhandedness; it does not dramatize Shostakovich's problems with the bureaucracy but makes clear how those problems affected the composer's life and the creation of his music. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."
—CHOICE
August 2009
Description:
Adopting a two-books-in-one format.
The Shostakovich Companion
combines a full-length, single-author examination of the life and compositional evolution of the Soviet Union's most famous composer; and a symposium in which a variety of analytical techniques is applied to selected Shostakovich works and genres. This is the first comprehensive English-language book in twenty-five years in which the primary emphasis is on musical issues, and the secondary emphasis is on the biographical and much-debated political issues.
The
The Shostakovich Companion
is divided into four parts. Part I considers the hermeneutic techniques that have been applied to Shostakovich's music, along with the various controversies surrounding his life and his relationship to Soviet politics. Part II comprises the book's central life-and-works discussion, uniting a comprehensive examination of Shostakovich's compositional evolution with a full account of his life. Coming from a variety of authors, the chapters in Part III demonstrate a cross-section of analytical techniques that may usefully be brought to bear upon Shostakovich's music. These range from literary and cinematically-based methods to the more traditional types of musical analysis. Part IV considers three independent but crucial aspects of Shostakovich's life: his contributions to the Soviet film industry, his career as a pianist, and his legacy and influence as a teacher.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
A Note on Transliteration
I. SHOSTAKOVICH RECEPTION by Michael Mishra
1. Shostakovich Reception History
2. On Shostakovich
3. The Testimony Debate
II. THE LIFE AND STYLISTIC EVOLUTION OFSHOSTAKOVICH by Michael Mishra
4. Youth, Revolution, and Fame (1906-1926)
5. The Modernist and the Iconoclast (1926-1931)
6. Rise and Fall; Fall and Rise (1932-1937)
7. Maturity (1938-1947)
8. DSCH (1948-1953)
9. The State Composer: Compromise and Dissent (1954-1965)
10. I lived onin the hearts of my true friends (1966-1975)
III. ANALYZING SHOSTAKOVICH
11. Shostakovich the Dramatist: The Nose and The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by James Morgan
12. Shostakovich and Wozzecks Secret: Towards the Formation of a Shostakovich Mode by David Haas
13. Shostakovichs Trademark Form: The Arch-Sonata in the First Movement of the Fifth Symphony by Michael Mishra
14. The Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Structural Model and Manipulation by Andrew Grobengieser
15. Shostakovich, the Passacaglia, and Serialism by Lyn Henderson
16. Film, Narrative, and Shostakovichs Last Quartet by Richard Burke
IV. ASPECTS OF SHOSTAKOVICH
17. Shostakovich and the Cinema by John Riley
18. Shostakovich the Pianist by Sofia Moshevich
19. The Shostakovich Legacy by Louis Blois
Bibliography
Index of Shostakovich Works
Index of Names and Subjects
About the Contributors
About the Author:
MICHAEL MISHRA
is Professor and Director of Orchestral Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He was the First Prize winner of the 2003 Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition in Ukraine, and frequently performs in the Czech Republic, where he has conducted the Karlovy Vary Philharmonic, the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, and at the Silesian State Opera. In 2001, he made his debut with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, and has recently appeared with orchestras in Russia, Ukraine, Argentina, Austria, and in South Korea. He has presented papers at Shostakovich conferences in Glasgow, Cambridge, and London.
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