| Series |
Russian music studies
Russian music studies (Bloomington, Ind.) ^A319529
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| Contents |
Schnittke speaks about himself. From conversations with Alexander Ivashkin -- Schnittke on the Lenin prize. Letter to the Lenin prize committee -- Schnittke on his own compositions. On Concerto Grosso No. 1 ; On the fourth symphony ; On film and film music ; On staging Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades -- Schnittke on creative artists. Composers. On Shostakovich: Circles of influence ; On Prokofiev ; On Gubaidulina ; On Kancheli ; In memory of Filip Moiseevich Gershkovich -- Performers. On Sviatoslav Richter ; On Gennadi Rozhdestvensky ; Subjective notes on an objective performance (on Alexi Liubimov) -- A writer. On Viktor Yerofeev -- A Painter. On the paintings of Vladimir Yankilevsky -- Schnittke on twentieth-century music. Polystylistic tendencies in modern music -- The orchestra and new music -- The problem of giving outward expression to a new idea -- From Schnittke's archive -- On jazz -- Timbral relationships and their functional use: the timbral scale -- Klangfarbenmelodie - "Melody of timbres" -- Functional variability of line in orchestral texture -- A new approach to composition: the statistical method -- Stereophonic tendencies in modern orchestral thinking -- Using rhythm to overcome meter -- Static form: a new conception of time -- Paradox as a feature of Stravinsky's musical logic -- Timbral modulations in Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta -- The principle of uninterrupted timbral affinities in Webern's orchestration of Bach's Fuga (Ricercata) a 6 voci -- The third movement of Berio's Sinfonia: sytlistic counterpoint, thematic and formal unity in context of polystylistics, broadening the concept of thematicism -- Ligeti's orchestral micropolyphony -- Schnittke as seen by others. Gidon Kremer ; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky ; Vladimir Yankilevsky ; Mstislav Rostropovich ; Mark Lubotsky. |
| Abstract |
The compositions of the author are known for their exquisite construction, their unlikely embrace of material from disparate sources, their predisposition for melancholia, and their tremendous beauty. But Schnittke was also a prolific writer on a wide variety of subjects. This compilation, the first English-language collection of Schnittke's writings, is one of the composer's last works. Included, are previously published and never before-published essays on his own compositions; on other composers and performers such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Sviatoslav Richter; and on a broad range of topics in twentieth-century music. Reflections by some of Schnittke's contemporaries and an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin round out the volume. Always keenly perceptive, Schnittke's essays are generously illustrated with musical examples, many of them in the composer's own hand. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| LCCN | 2001005133 |
| ISBN | 0253338182 (cloth : alk. paper) |
