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Composing the modern subject : four string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reichardt, Sarah Jane, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
Subjects:
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, > 1906-1975. > Quartets, > violins (2), viola, cello, > no. 6-9.
String quartet > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Shostakovich and the modern subject
  • The end that is no end : cadences and closure in the sixth String quartet, op. 101 (1956)
  • The space between : codas, death and the seventh String quartet, op. 108 (1960)
  • Musical hauntings : the ritual of conjuration in Shostakovich's eighth String quartet, op. 110 (1960)
  • The indivisible remainder : novelization in the ninth String quartet, op. 117 (1964).