This study is an investigation of tonal structures in selected preludes of Shostakovich's Op.34. Explanations and analytic perspectives provide support of tonality oriented interpretation for the compositions which often appear to be "atonal." Chapter One is divided into (1) historical perspectives of the prelude as form, and (2) Summary of Shostakovich's life and work. Chapter Two contains a historical background of (1) the development of Shostakovich's compositional styles, emphasizing his early style of piano composition, and (2) the impact of his "Lady Macbeth," the crisis and its influence on later works. Chapter Three deals with the problems of and analytical approaches in the study of the selected preludes.

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The censorship of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is a familiar story to musicologists, but reception of the opera is not frequently mentioned. Examining the reception of a work can bring a work's relative importance into focus. In this thesis, German literary and reception theorist Hans Robert Jauss's model of the horizon of expectations is applied to reviews of American productions of Lady Macbeth. Curiosity about communism following the Great Depression in 1930s, America and American music critics' knowledge that Soviet composers worked for the Soviet regime led to the belief that Lady Macbeth was officially approved export from the Soviet Union. When the article condemning the opera as a Western formalism appeared in the Soviet magazine, Pravda, Americans needed to adjust their understanding of Lady Macbeth as a socialist expression. Following the work's revival in San Francisco in 1981, the influence of Solomon Volkov's Testimony is prevalent in many reviews. Many reviewers use Volkov's narrative of Shostakovich as covert dissident of the Soviet Union to assert that the censorship of the opera was about the content of the plot and not the music. Following the Soviet rejection of the work, American critics tried to claim Shostakovich for the West based on the values of individual freedom and feminism set forth in Lady Macbeth.

In 1950-51, for the bicentennial of the death of J. S. Bach, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his collection of Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87. This thesis is a study of the fugal technique of Shostakovich as observed in Op. 87, in light of the fugal style of Bach as observed in The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume One. Individual analyses of each of the twenty-four Shostakovich pieces yield the conclusion that Op. 87 is an emulation of Bachian fugal methods as observed in The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume One.

Schon das erste Symposium ermöglichte, deutsche und russische Forscher zusammenrufen. Die "Schostakowitsch-Gesellschaft e.V." sowie die Symposiumreihe bildeten den Anfang eines internationalen Austauschs von Meinungen, Kenntnissen, wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen und künstlerischen Praktiken.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 449-470). Issued electronically.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Southern California. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (D.M.A.--Music)--University of California, San Diego, 2000. / Vita. Works analyzed: First piano concerto / Dmitri Shostakovich -- Quintet for piano and strings / Alfred Schnittke -- Drei Stücke / Edison Denisov -- Sonata no. 5 in ten movements / Galina Ustvolskaya. Duration of acc. tapes: 1:25:00. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-84).

O presente trabalho investiga a retórica da Fuga opus 87 n° 4 de Dmitri Shostakovich. Para atingir tal objetivo, foram utilizados os trabalhos de Lester (1986, 2001), Harrison (1990) e Roberts (2004). Neste último, estão os princípios metodológicos utilizados para a realização desta pesquisa, os quais consistem, basicamente, no reconhecimento dos elementos identificadores [notable properties], termo utilizado por Roberts para denominar propriedades distintas de uma fuga. Roberts (2004) aplicou seu método para reconhecer a natureza, retórica ou literal de quatro fugas de Bach para órgão (BWV 533, 545, 547 e 578). Na fuga dupla n° 4, em Mi menor, de Shostakovich foram encontrados cinco elementos identificadores: graus da escala em suspensão, ambigüidade tonal/modal, relação entre Integrantes, presença do terceiro contra-sujeito para um dos sujeitos e seções paralelas intensificadas. No discurso, a presença e inter-relações mútuas dos elementos identificadores estabelecem conflitos, os quais são resolvidos revelando a natureza retórica da composição.