scholarly journals The Musical Oeuvres of Dmitri Shostakovich

ICONI ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Demchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Creative Development ◽  
Early Music ◽  
Dmitri Shostakovich ◽  
Middle Period

The first part of this lecture, dedicated to the evolution of the composer’s creative development (early music, the middle period, the late music) was published in the first issue of the journal “ICONI” for this year. The conclusive part of the lecture, published in this issue, is focused on the determining philosophical “through” thoroughfares of Shostakovich’s legacy (the issues of humanism and artistic constants).

scholarly journals The Musical Oeuvres of Dmitri Shostakovich

ICONI ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Demchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Compact Form ◽  
Dmitri Shostakovich ◽  
Middle Period ◽  
Late Works ◽  
Present Text

This lecture of Doctor of Arts, Professor Alexander Demchenko illuminates in a maximally compact form the evolution of the music of the great composer, the main stages of which are corresponded to by the respective sections of the present text: “Early Works,” “Middle Period” and “Late Works,” which is supplemented by generalizations contained in the sections “The Issue of Humanism” and “The Artistic Constants.” The expounding of the lecture will be accompanied by listening to a number of fragments designed to give an overall impression of the range of the composer’s artistic quests.

scholarly journals The Musical Oeuvres of Alfred G. Schnittke

ICONI ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 112-130
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Demchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Igor Stravinsky ◽  
Sergei Rachmaninoff ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Dmitri Shostakovich ◽  
Late Style ◽  
Musical Compositions ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Middle Period ◽  
Russian Composers

The previous issues of the journal featured publications of lectures about such outstanding 20th century Russian composers as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofi ev, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian, Georgy Sviridov, and Rodion Shchedrin. This series is being continued with a lecture about the music of Alfred G. Schnittke. The fi rst part of the lecture (“National ‘Fermentations’ and Early Works”) examines the questions of the genesis of the composer’s personality and the initial stage of his artistic formation with a drastic reorientation from a traditional style to avant-garde experiment. The second part (“The Middle Period”) is devoted to Schnittke’s explorations in the direction of contacts with wide audiences, which went along various lines of democratization of his artistic approach. The conclusive part (“The Late Style”) is directed towards the composer’s immense contribution to the formation of the stylistic realities of the Postmodern aesthetics. During the course of the lecture’s exposition fragments of musical compositions are offered with recommended performances of them, in their sum providing a perception of the most substantial sides of Alfred G. Schnittke’s musical output.

The Sephardic Voice of Elias Canetti

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Maria Esformes
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Social Critic ◽  
Elias Canetti ◽  
Intellectual Autobiography ◽  
The Way

One of the most fascinating memoirs to appear in recent years is that of Elias Canetti, recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature. his three-volume spiritual and intellectual autobiography is a complex and insightful rendering of his personal background and his creative development as a novelist, philosopher, and social critic. However, Canetti's autobiography is much more than a compelling account of the development of a great artist – it is a portrait of the tragic character of an entire era that witnessed the destruction of cultures and the way of life o many Jewish communities throughout Europe.

A.S. PUSHKIN’S LITERARY WORLD IN THE CREATIVE PERCEPTION BY A.T. TVARDOSKY AND A.A. KULESHOV

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Dmirij Bestolkov
Keyword(s):  
Creative Development ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Study Hypothesis

The article is devoted to the creative development of A.S. Pushkin’s poetic tradition in the works by A.T. Tvardovsky and A.A. Kuleshov. The material of the research is based on the lyrics, criticism and journalism of the writers worked in different years. According to the study hypothesis, the models of A.S. Pushkin's tradition realization in A. Tvardovsky’s and A. Kuleshov’s literary worlds are characterized by a wide variety and adaptation at several levels such as a theme of the work, a poetic motif, a literary image, a genre and principles of literary thinking. In conclusion of the study, it is argued that the relationship between the works by A.A. Kuleshov and A.T. Tvardovsky is manifested (from the perspective of different themes, motives, genres, images) through A.S. Pushkin's perceived assessment of reality, i.e. «A.S. Pushkin's individual world-attitude» (according to V.D. Skvoznikov). «Pushkin's individual world-attitude» is understood as skills to perceive and reflect not only the global historic events, but also everyday phenomena of a trivial order, an ability not only to identify themselves in these various events, but also to assess the course of these events in their own poetic world.

Improvising Early Music

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob C. Wegman ◽  
Johannes Menke ◽  
Peter Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Early Music

Islam: The Arabic and Persian Traditions, Eleventh–Fifteenth Centuries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Hirschler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Abbasid Caliphate ◽  
Middle Period ◽  
Early Islamic

This chapter deals with how the Islamic historical writing of the Middle Period developed directly from the early Islamic tradition, and its legacy remained deeply inscribed into the ways history was written and represented between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. However, as historians started to develop new styles and new genres, they turned to previously neglected aspects of the past, their social profile changed, and the writing of history became a more self-conscious, and to some degree self-confident, cultural practice. Most importantly, those issues that had motivated earlier historians, such as the legitimacy of the Abbasid Caliphate, declined in significance and historians of the Middle Period turned to new and more diverse subjects.

The Jewish Population of Tennessee

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Maslon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Sheet Music ◽  
Early Music ◽  
Music Publishers ◽  
Popular Music Industry

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the first way that the imprimatur of Broadway reached consumers was through the immense distribution of colorful and tuneful sheet music. Early music publishers learned quickly that associating a song with a Broadway show such as the Ziegfeld Follies, Broadway personalities such as Al Jolson and Fanny Brice, or Broadway composers such as Victor Herbert gave that tune a special identity that increased its popularity. In addition, music publishers, such as Max Dreyfus, were major power brokers in the popular music industry, yielding the ability to make a song into a hit, and continued to be influential through the first half of the twentieth century.

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