Shostakovich Studies 2

A collection of authoritative and up-to-date scholarship on one of the twentieth century's most important and enigmatic composers.

Pauline Fairclough (Edited by)

9780521111188, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 November 2010

336 pages, 4 b/w illus. 7 tables 56 music examples
25.4 x 18 x 2 cm, 0.83 kg

"As Fairclough notes in her introduction, the essays in this collection reflect a growing sophistication among Shostakovich scholars, and a notable shift in tone from the notorious 'Shosta kovich wars' of the 1990s"
-Judith Kuhn,University of Wisconsin

When Shostakovich Studies was published in 1995, archival research in the ex-Soviet Union was only just beginning. Since that time, research carried out in the Shostakovich Family Archive, founded by the composer's widow Irina Antonovna Shostakovich in 1975, and the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture has significantly raised the level of international Shostakovich studies. At the same time, scholarly understanding of Soviet society and culture has developed significantly since 1991, and this has also led to a more nuanced appreciation of Shostakovich's public and professional identity. Shostakovich Studies 2 reflects these changes, focusing on documentary research, manuscript sources, film studies and musical analysis informed by literary criticism and performance. Contributions in this volume include chapters on Orango, Shostakovich's diary, behind-the-scenes events following Pravda's criticisms of Shostakovich in 1936 and a new memoir of Shostakovich by the Soviet poet Evgeniy Dolmatovsky, as well as analytical studies from a range of perspectives.

Introduction
Part I. Archival Studies: 1. Interrupted masterpiece: Shostakovich's unfinished opera Orango Olga Digonskaya
2. Notes from Shostakovich's diary Olga Dombrovskaya
3. Mitya Shostakovich's first opus (dating the Scherzo Op. 1) Olga Digonskaya
Part II. Analysis and Interpretation: 4. Shostakovich and structural hearing David Fanning
5. Socialist realism, modernism and Dmitriy Shostakovich's Odna (Alone, 1929–31) Joan Titus
6. Shostakovich's politics of D minor and its neighbours, 1931–49 Patrick McCreless
7. Shostakovich and 'polyphonic' creativity: the Fourteenth Symphony revisited Kristian Hibberd
8. The poet's echo, the composer's voice: monologic verse or dialogic song? Philip Ross Bullock
Part III. Context: 9. 'Muddle instead of music' in 1936: cataclysm of musical administration Simo Mikkonen
10. Shostakovich and Dolmatovsky: a last memoir Pauline Fairclough
11. Shostakovich, Proletkul't and RAPM Levon Hakobian.

Subject Areas: Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" [AVGE], 20th century & contemporary classical music [AVGC6]