Sarah Reichardt

Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich

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Produktbeschreibung

Dmitri Shostakovich and his music have been subject to heated debate concerning how the musical meaning of his works can be understood in relationship to the composer's life within the Soviet State. This book offers a useful corrective: setting aside biographically grounded and traditional analytical modes of explication, Reichardt uncovers and explores the musical ambiguities of four of the composer's middle string quartets. The music is constantly collapsing, reversing, inverting and denying its own structural imperatives. Reichardt argues that such confrontation of the musical language with itself, also speaks poignantly to the fractured state of a more general form of modern subjectivity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780754658849
• ISBN-10: 0754658848
• Artikelnr.: 44973405

Autorenporträt

Sarah Reichardt

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: musical meaning and analytical tools
Shostakovich and the modern subject
The end that is no end: cadences and closure in the 6th string quartet, Op.101 (1956)
The space between: codas, death and the 7th string quartet, Op108 (1960)
Musical hauntings: the ritual of conjuration in Shostakovich's 8th string quartet, Op.110 (1960)
The indivisible remainder: novelization in the 9th string quartet, Op.117 (1964)
Epilogue: music and the real
Bibliography
Index.