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9780754658849

Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754658849

  • ISBN10:

    0754658848

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Since the publication of Solomon Volkov's disputed memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his music has been subject to heated debate concerning how the musical meaning of his works can be understood in relationship to the composer's life within

Author Biography

Sarah Reichardt is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Introduction: musical meaning and analytical tools
Shostakovich and the modern subject
The end that is no end: cadences and closure in the 6th string quartet, Op.101 (1956)
The space between: codas, death and the 7th string quartet, Op108 (1960)
Musical hauntings: the ritual of conjuration in Shostakovich's 8th string quartet, Op.110 (1960)
The indivisible remainder: novelization in the 9th string quartet, Op.117 (1964)
Epilogue: music and the real
Bibliography
Index
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