A Shostakovich companion
By: Michael Mishra.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9780313305030
Subjects: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, -- 1906-1975; Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, -- 1906-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation; Composers -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
Genres: Biography.
Description: xx, 609 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-583) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Shostakovich reception. Shostakovich reception history ; On Shostakovich ; The testimony debate / Michael Mishra; title: The life and stylistic evolution of Shostakovich. Youth, revolution, and fame (1906-1926) ; The modernist and the iconoclast (1926-1931); title: Rise and fall; fall and rise (1932-1937); title: Maturity (1938-1947) ; "DSCH" (1948-1953) ; The state composer : compromise and dissent (1954-1965) ; "I lived on; title: in the hearts of my true friends" (1966-1975) / Michael Mishra; title: Analyzing Shostakovich. Shostakovich the dramatist : The nose and the Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District / James Morgan ; Shostakovich and Wozzeck's secret : towards the formation of a "Shostakovich mode" / David Haas ; Shostakovich's "trademark" form : the arch-sonata in the first movement of the Fifth symphony / Michael Mishra ; The Twenty-four preludes and fugues, op. 87 : structural model and manipulation / Andrew Grobengieser ; Shostakovich, the passacaglia, and serialism / Lyn Henderson ; Film, narrative, and Shostakovich's last quartet / Richard Burke; title: Aspects of Shostakovich. Shostakovich and the cinema / John Riley ; Shostakovich the pianist / Sofia Moshevich; title: The Shostakovich legacy / Louis Blois.