Composing the modern subject
Sarah Jane Reichardt
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Composing the modern subject
Published
2008
Publisher
Ashgate
Pages
129
ISBN-13
9780754658849
ISBN-10
0754658848
Description
"Since the publication of Solomon Volkov's disputed memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his music has 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. While much ink has been spilled, very little work has attempted to define how Shostakovich's music has remained so arresting not only to those within the Soviet culture, but also to Western audiences - even though such audiences are often largely ignorant of the compositional context or even the biography of the composer." "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, especially those ambiguities located in moments of rupture within the musical structure. The music is constantly collapsing, reversing, inverting and denying its own structural imperatives. Reichardt argues that such confrontation of the musical language with itself, though perhaps interpretable as Shostakovich's own unique version of double-speak, also poignantly articulates the fractured state of a more general form of modern subjectivity."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
83 string quartets.
Quartett (Zeitstrahl)
Gengaku shijūsōkyoku dai ni-ban
Kleine Abendmusik, für Streichquartett.
Smyčcový kvartet, C moll, jednovětý.
Quartetto
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Who is the author of Composing the modern subject?
Composing the modern subject was written by Sarah Jane Reichardt.
When was Composing the modern subject published?
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