Shostakovich Studies 2

Contents

• Introduction;
• Part I . Archival Studies:
• 1. Interrupted masterpiece: Shostakovich's unfinished opera Orango Olga Digonskaya;
• 2. Notes from Shostakovich's diary Olga Dombrovskaya;
• 3. Mitya Shostakovich's first opus (dating the Scherzo Op. 1) Olga Digonskaya;
• Part II . Analysis and Interpretation:
• 4. Shostakovich and structural hearing David Fanning;
• 5. Socialist realism, modernism and Dmitriy Shostakovich's Odna (Alone, 1929-31) Joan Titus;
• 6. Shostakovich's politics of D minor and its neighbours, 1931-49 Patrick McCreless;
• 7. Shostakovich and 'polyphonic' creativity: the Fourteenth Symphony revisited Kristian Hibberd;
• 8. The poet's echo, the composer's voice: monologic verse or dialogic song? Philip Ross Bullock;
• Part III . Context:
• 9. 'Muddle instead of music' in 1936: cataclysm of musical administration Simo Mikkonen;
• 10. Shostakovich and Dolmatovsky: a last memoir Pauline Fairclough;
• 11. Shostakovich, Proletkul't and RAPM Levon Hakobian.