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1 online resource (529 pages) |
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Routledge Russian and East European Music and Culture |
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Routledge Russian and East European music and culture.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of examples; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration; Note on translations; Introduction; PART I: Remainders of the Silver Age and the Sturm und Drang of Soviet modernism; 1 The distribution of forces on the musical scene during the early post-revolutionary period; Proletkul't and poputchiki; RAPM and ASM; The post-Skryabin line: Roslavetz, Aleksandrov, Feynberg, Lyatoshinsky; Myakovsky and his Sixth Symphony; Shcherbachëv and his 'Blok Symphony'; The 'urbanist' line: Deshevov, Polovinkin, Mosolov |
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New developments in non-European regionsNotes; 2 The rise of Shostakovich; From the beginnings to The Bolt; The Nose; Notes; PART II: Music under Stalin; 3 The beginnings of the 'big Soviet style'. Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk District and the first offensives on 'formalism'; The turning point of 1932; Antecedents to the 'big Soviet style'; Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk District; Perekovka; Musical missionaries and 'melodists'; Light genre; Stalin and the opera. The 'Muddle instead of Music' affair and its victims: Popov, Litinsky, Zhelobinsky; Bogatïri and Ivan Susanin; Notes |
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4 The second half of the thirties the period of 'maturity' of Soviet music; Khachaturian; Khrennikov and Kabalevsky; The return of the prodigal son; Prokofiev's early Soviet masterpieces; Prokofiev versus Shostakovich; Shostakovich: from the fourth to the fifth; Lyatoshinsky's Second, Myaskovsky's Seventeenth; The 'thaw' of the late 1930s; Notes; 5 The war and early post-war years; The changes brought by the war; Shostakovich in 1941-46; Prokofiev in 1941-46; The rest of Soviet wartime output; Notes; 6 The year 1948 and after; Towards the 1948 resolution; Zhdanovshchnina in music |
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In the wake of Zhdanovshchina: beskonfliktnost' and composing for one's desk drawerGalïnin; The Decembrists, Taming of the Shrew, Spartacus; Musical hoaxes; Notes; PART III: The year 1953 and after: The 'Bronze Age'; 7 Introduction: The progress of events; Notes; 8 Shostakovich in 1953-75; Tenth Symphony; 'The Year 1905': a temporary return to RAPM ideals; An auto-epitaph; 'The Year 1917'; 'Babiy Yar' and 'Fears'; An 'intermezzo'; Symphony-requiem; The final years; Notes; 9 Shostakovich's disciples; Sviridov; Ustvolskaya; Weinberg; Garayev and Sarian; Chaykovsky; Bunin; Tishchenko; Notes |
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10 The avant-garde of Moscow: The 'great three' and other major figuresVolkonsky; Karamanov; Denisov; Schnittke; Gubaydulina; Karetnikov; The followers; Notes; 11 Innovative tendencies outside Russia; Trans-Caucasia; Ukraine; Baltic States; Notes; 12 Some 'independents' and 'middle-roads'; Lokshin; Eshpay; Sidel 'nikov; Ledenëv; Shchedrin; Slonimsky; Falik; Butzko; Banshchikov; Knayfel; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Chronological table; Bibliography; Index of names and musical works |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
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Music
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317091868 |
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1317091868 |
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