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| Named Person: | Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Mazullo |
| ISBN: | 9780300149432 0300149433 |
| OCLC Number: | 449854115 |
| Description: | xviii, 286 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Shostakovich and the challenges of interpretation. Lost in translation ; The naked heart ; Essential truths -- Placing the preludes and fugues. Understanding the 1948 Resolution ; Public and private ; Wasted labor ; Analyses and metaphors -- The cycle as a whole. Back to Bach ; Shostakovich and the Russian contrapuntal tradition ; Strange bedfellows ; Shostakovich's earlier preludes, without fugues -- Personalities in pairs. The self seeking substance ; No. 1 in C major ; No. 2 in A minor ; No. 9 in E major ; No. 10 in C-sharp minor ; No. 15 in D-flat major ; No. 16 in B-flat minor -- Slow tendencies. The poetics of estrangement ; No. 4 in E minor ; No. 6 in B minor ; No. 8 in F-sharp minor ; No. 12 in G-sharp minor ; No. 13 in F-sharp major ; No. 14 in E-flat minor -- Active surfaces. Outbursts and thrill rides ; No. 3 in G major ; No. 5 in D major ; No. 7 in A major ; No. 11 in B major ; No. 17 in A-flat major ; No. 21 in B-flat major -- Completing the cycle. Listening for the plot. No. 18 in F minor ; No. 19 in E-flat major ; No. 20 in C minor ; No. 22 in G minor ; No. 23 in F major ; No. 24 in D minor -- The ethics of expression: towards a performance history. Embracing clichés ; The phobia of expression ; The performance as the work ; Sentimental and ideological traditions ; Performance, sincerity, and authenticity. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Mazullo. |
Abstract:
Suitable for pianists wishing to play Shostakovich's work as well as for listeners, this work studies Shostakovich's largest work for piano, the "Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues, Opus 87". It
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