{"product_id":"a-schnittke-reader-hardback-9780253338181","title":"A Schnittke Reader (Hardback) 9780253338181","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Schnittke Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlfred Schnittke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253338181\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 August 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 2 b\u0026amp;w photos, 139 figures, 6 plates, 1 index\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.712 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand. In A Schnittke Reader, the composer speaks of his life, his works, other composers, performers, and a broad range of topics in 20th-century music. The volume is rounded out with reflections by some of Schnittke's contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreliminary Table of Contents:\u003cbr\u003e Preface by Mstislav Rostropovich\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Note\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Schnittke talks about himself\u003cbr\u003e From an interview with Alexander Ivashkin\u003cbr\u003e Letter to the Lenin Prize Committee (1990)\u003cbr\u003e Schnittke on his own compositions\u003cbr\u003e On Concerto Grosso No. 1\u003cbr\u003e On the premiere of his Fourth Symphony\u003cbr\u003e On film and film music\u003cbr\u003e On staging Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades\u003cbr\u003e Schnittke on creative artists\u003cbr\u003e Composers \u003cbr\u003e On Shostakovich: circles of influence\u003cbr\u003e On Prokofiev\u003cbr\u003e On Gubaidulina\u003cbr\u003e On Kancheli\u003cbr\u003e In Memory of Filipp Moiseevich Gershkovich (Philip Hershkovish)\u003cbr\u003e Peformers \u003cbr\u003e On Svyatoslav Richter\u003cbr\u003e On Gennady Rozhdestvensky\u003cbr\u003e Subjective Notes on an Objective Performance (on Aleksey Lyubimov)\u003cbr\u003e A Writer\u003cbr\u003e On Viktor Yerofeev\u003cbr\u003e A Painter \u003cbr\u003e On the Paintings of Vladimir Yankilevsky\u003cbr\u003e V. Schnittke on twentieth-century music\u003cbr\u003e 1. Polystylistic tendencies in modern music\u003cbr\u003e 2. The orchestra and \"the new music\"\u003cbr\u003e 3. The problem of giving outward expression to a new idea\u003cbr\u003e 4. From Schnittke's archive\u003cbr\u003e 5. On jazz\u003cbr\u003e 6. Timbral relationships and their functional use: the timbral scale\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"Klangfarbenmelodie\"—\"Melody of timbres\"\u003cbr\u003e 8. Functional instability of voice-leading in musical texture\u003cbr\u003e 9. A new approach to composition: the statistical method\u003cbr\u003e 10. Stereophonic tendencies in modern orchestral thinking\u003cbr\u003e 11. Using rhythm to overcome metre\u003cbr\u003e 12. Static form: a new conception of time\u003cbr\u003e 13. Paradox as a feature of Stravinsky's musical logic\u003cbr\u003e 14. Timbre modulations in Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta\u003cbr\u003e 15. The closed system of timbre connections in the Bach-Webern Ricercata fugue\u003cbr\u003e 16. The third movement of Luciano Berio's Symphony \u003cbr\u003e 17. Orchestral micropolyphony in the music of Ligeti\u003cbr\u003e VI. Schnittke as seen by others\u003cbr\u003e Gidon Kremer\u003cbr\u003e Gennady Rozhdestvensky\u003cbr\u003e Vladimir Yankilevsky\u003cbr\u003e Mstislav Rostropovich\u003cbr\u003e Mark Lubotsky\u003cbr\u003e Sources\u003cbr\u003e Index of names and works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681227534616,"sku":"9780253338181","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-schnittke-reader-hardback-9780253338181","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}