Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction. Talking about eggs: musicology and Shostakovich
- 2 Public lies and unspeakable truth interpreting Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
- 3 Form in Shostakovich's instrumental works
- 4 Russian theorists on modality in Shostakovich's music
- 5 The cycle of structure and the cycle of meaning: the Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 67
- 6 Leitmotif in Lady Macbeth
- 7 From Lady Macbeth to Katerina Shostakovich's versions and revisions
- 8 The Golden Age: the true story of the première
- 9 ‘And art made tongue-tied by authority’ Shostakovich's song-cycles
- 10 A debt repaid? Some observations on Shostakovich and his late-period recognition of Britten
- 11 Shostakovich and Schnittke: the erosion of symphonic syntax
- Index
Acknowledgments
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction. Talking about eggs: musicology and Shostakovich
- 2 Public lies and unspeakable truth interpreting Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
- 3 Form in Shostakovich's instrumental works
- 4 Russian theorists on modality in Shostakovich's music
- 5 The cycle of structure and the cycle of meaning: the Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 67
- 6 Leitmotif in Lady Macbeth
- 7 From Lady Macbeth to Katerina Shostakovich's versions and revisions
- 8 The Golden Age: the true story of the première
- 9 ‘And art made tongue-tied by authority’ Shostakovich's song-cycles
- 10 A debt repaid? Some observations on Shostakovich and his late-period recognition of Britten
- 11 Shostakovich and Schnittke: the erosion of symphonic syntax
- Index
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- Shostakovich Studies , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995