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Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7

Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7

Kuhn, Judith

Hardcover

Classical Music

ISBN10: 0754664066
ISBN13: 9780754664062
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 28 2010
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Much of the controversy about Shostakovich's music has been related to questions of meaning. In this book, Kuhn examines each quartet in turn, looking first at its historical and biographical context, with special attention to the cultural questions being discussed at the time of its writing. She then surveys the work's reception history, and follows with a critical discussion of the quartet's architectural and harmonic features. Using the new tools of Sonata Theory, Kuhn provides a fresh analytical approach to Shostakovich's music, giving valuable and detailed insights into the quartets, showing how the composer's mastery of form has enabled these works to be heard as active participants in the Soviet and Western cultural discourses of their time, while remaining compelling and relevant to twenty-first century listeners.

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