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The first five symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich
… analysis of the first five symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich. These works are-analyzed according to the following categories: form, harmony, thematic treatment, texture and orchestration. The purpose of this process is to reveal the essence of his' compositional style as exemplified in the first …
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Creativity Despite Duress: Shostakovich and Prokofiev’s Musical Struggles under Soviet Government Restrictions
… investigates how Soviet composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev navigated state-imposed artistic constraints under strict government control. During periods of heightened nationalism and international conflict, especially World War II, the Soviet regime intensified its use of …
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A comparison of passacaglias in piano trios by Ravel and Shostakovich from a historical and theoretical perspective
… Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67, written by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), and the passacaglia from the Piano Trio in A Minor, written by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).Before the history and theory discussion of these two movements begins, a background is given on the passacaglia form and its origins. …
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AN ANALYSIS OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE'S POLYSTYLISM IN HIS STRING QUARTET NO. 3 (1983)
… from an extension in my research of the music of Shostakovich, who, as an earlier composer of the Soviet orbit, was quite influential on Schnittke's early style. Many of Schnittke's early works exemplify an apparent Romantic syntax, often regained within dramatic chromaticisms that Shostakovich is …
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Artist diploma recital (violin)
… concerto no. 1 in A minor, op. 77 / Dmitri Shostakovich.
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MM recitals
… Recital Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 -- Shostakovich Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 -- Saint-Saens
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Three Transcriptios for Solo Organ: Sonata da chiesa Op. 3, No. 3, by Arcangelo Corelli, Overture to La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, Festive Overture Op. 96, by Dmitry Shostakovich
… destino by Verdi, and Festive Overture Op. 96 by Shostakovich, were selected according to technical accessibility as well as artistic possibilities for the new performing medium. Each chapter, devoted to one transcription, is divided into three sections: (1) an introduction, containing a brief …
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STUDY AND PERFORMANCE GUIDELINES TO RODION SHCHEDRIN’S 24 PRELUDES AND FUGUES
… influences of Johann Sebastian Bach and Dmitri Shostakovich’s preludes and fugues, a feature of Shchedrin’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, and an interesting comparison of Volumes I and II. Shostakovich, one of the earliest composers to write a set of preludes and fugues in the twentieth-century, …
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Pairings: Quintets and Duos from the Collaborative Piano Repertoire
… and Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 108. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 and his Cello and Piano Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 will be the last two works examined in this dissertation. This dissertation project consisted of three recitals, presented in the Gildenhorn Recital …
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THE INFLUENCE OF JAZZ AND ITS PREDECESSORS ON PIANO CHAMBER MUSIC AFTER 1920
… Satie, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Leonard Bernstein, among many others, were drawn to jazz style and incorporated its elements into their compositions. This performance dissertation explores how a range of these composers, including both classical and jazz …
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Triadic Music in Twentieth-Century Russia
… and the altered scale degrees of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The third study examines the strings of major and minor triads that Alfred Schnittke deploys in his atonal works, arguing that Schnittke has cultivated a framework that deliberately avoids the patterns of tonal writing. This allows the …
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Deconstructing David Lang's The Anvil Chorus
… of nine when he was shown a film performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 by Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic. The film brought forth the fact that Shostakovich was only nineteen years old when he wrote the symphony. Lang thought, "I have ten years and I could do it." Consequently, …
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The piano quintet: Influence of medium on genre
… on significant twentieth-century examples by Shostakovich, Schnittke, Ginastera, Xenakis and Feldman, as well as more recent works, by Messiaen, Carter, Goehr and Adès. As will be shown, a surprisingly limited number of models for new works have been utilised, earlier exemplars inspiring later …
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The Significance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata Op.12
… is to bring forth the significance of Shostakovich's Piano Sonata Op.12. This sonata is a hybrid of the German musical tradition, Russian Modernism, and Liszt's thematic transformation technique. It demonstrates Shostakovich's highly intellectual compositional skills influenced by the …
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Dual-Interval Spaces: Interrelations Between Interval Classes 1 and 5, Local Pitch Centers and Form in Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 12
<p>Dmitri Shostakovich’s <em>Piano Sonata No. 1</em>, written in 1926, is one of his most complex and lengthy works for piano. In contrast to the conservative style used in his critically-acclaimed Symphony No. 1, Op. 10, composed a year earlier, the sonata employs a highly modernistic idiom which …
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Reaching through the Iron Curtain: Practicalities in the Anglo-Soviet cultural exchange of music and musicians, 1955-1975
This dissertation is an investigation of the position of British and Soviet music professionals (such as composers, concert agents, performers, and publishers) in the interchange of music and musicians between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1975. This study determines how they …