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A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.


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A Soviet credo; Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony symphony [Gr.,=sounding together], a sonata for orchestra.

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Ashgate Publishing Co.

2006

261 pages

$99.95

Hardcover

MT130

Fairclough (music, U. of Bristol, UK) analyzes Dmitrii Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, composed in 1935-36 but not performed until 1961. She addresses speculations Speculations is an online resource for writers who wish to break into or increase their presence within the science fiction, fantasy, or other speculative fiction subgenres. Speculations has been a Hugo Award nominee seven times. The website is maintained by Kent Brewster.  as to the reason for its late premiere, issues with analyzing the piece, and considers it in a social context, giving the political background in the Soviet Union during the 1930s as well. The bulk of the text is taken over by a movement- by-movement analysis that is rooted in methods of Adorno and Bakhtin, among others. The book is based on her PhD thesis.

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