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The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke
- Author: Dixon, Gavin
The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke
- Author: Dixon, Gavin
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The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century. Each piece is discussed in detail, with particular attention to the composer’s groundbreaking polystylism, as well as his unique approach to musical symbolism and his deep engagement with Christian themes.
This is the first publication to look at Schnittke’s output in its entirety, and for most works it represents either the first ever published analysis or the first in a language other than Russian. The volume presents new research from the Ivashkin-Schnittke Archive at Goldsmiths, University of London and the collection of Schnittke’s compositional sketches at the Julliard Library in New York. It also draws on the substantial research on Schnittke’s music published in the Russian language. Including a work list and bibliography of primary and secondary sources, this is an essential reference for all those interested in Russian music, 20th-century music and performance studies.
Contents
- CHAPTER 1: ERAS AND TECHNIQUES
- STUDENT WORKS 1953-1963
- SERIAL PERIOD 1963-1971
- Serialism - Sonorism: Ligeti and the Polish School
- FUNEREAL AND RELIGIOUS WORKS 1972-1980
- Funereal Works: Schnittke's Quiet Period - Religious Works - Liturgical Allusions in Instrumental Works - Representations of the Cross - Common-Mediant Chord Relations - Bells
- POLYSTYLISM 1968-1991
- Representations of Evil: Popular Music and the Banal - Bach and the Baroque - Monograms - Harmonic and Contrapuntal Techniques - Non-tonal Triadic Relations - The [0,1,6,7] Pitch Set - Schnittke Stretto - Structural Innovations - Sonoristic Cadences - Cod
- LATE STYLE 1985-1994
- CHAPTER 2 - STAGE WORKS
- BALLETS
- Introduction - Labyrinths - Der gelbe Klang - Gogol Suite and Sketches - Peer Gynt
- OPERAS
- Introduction - Life with an Idiot - Gesualdo - Historia von D. Johann Fausten
- THEATRE MUSIC
- CHAPTER 3: CHORAL WORKS
- Introduction - Nagasaki - Songs of War and Peace - Voices of Nature - Requiem - Der Sonnengesang des Franz von Assisi - Minnesang - Seid nuchtern und wachet... (Faust Cantata) - Three Choruses - Choir Concerto - Penitential Psalms - Opening Verse for the
- CHAPTER 4: SOLO VOCAL WORKS
- Introduction - Three Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva - 10 Songs from Turandot - Eight Songs from Don Carlos - Magdalina's Song - Three Madrigals - Three Scenes - Drei Gedichte von Viktor Schnittke - Mutter - 5 Fragments to Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch/Fragment
- CHAPTER 5 - ORCHESTRAL WORKS
- SYMPHONIES
- Introduction - Symphony No. 1 - Symphony No. 2 'St Florian' - Symphony No. 3 - Symphony No. 4 - Concerto Grosso No. 4/Symphony No. 5 - Symphony No. 6 - Symphony No. 7 - Symphony No. 8 - Symphony No. 9 -
- CONCERTOS AND CONCERTI GROSSI
- Introduction - Violin Concerto No. 1 - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra - Violin Concerto No. 2 - Concerto for Oboe and Harp - Cadenzas to Concertos by Beethoven and Mozart - Concerto Grosso No. 1 - Violin Concerto
- OTHER ORCHESTRAL WORKS
- pianissimo... - Passacaglia - Ritual - (Kein) Sommernachtstraum - Four Aphorisms for Chamber Orchestra - Sutartines - Hommage a Grieg - Symphonic Prologue and For Liverpool
- CHAPTER 6: CHAMBER WORKS
- Introduction
- WORKS FOR STRING QUARTET
- String Quartet No. 1 - String Quartet No. 2 - String Quartet No. 3 - String Quartet No. 4 - Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky - Variations for String Quartet
- WORKS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO/VIOLIN DUET/VIOLIN SOLO
- Violin Sonata No. 1 - Violin Sonata No. 2 (Quasi una Sonata) - Violin Sonata No. 3 - Suite in the Old Style and Musica Nostalgica - Greeting Rondo - Prelude in Memoriam Dmitry Shostakovich - Stille Nacht - A Paganini - Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan - Po
- WORKS FOR CELLO AND PIANO/CELLO SOLO/CELLO AND ENSEMBLE
- Cello Sonata No. 1 - Cello Sonata No. 2 - Dialogue for Cello and 7 Instrumentalists - 4 Hymns for Cello and Ensemble - Klingende Buchstaben - Epilogue from Peer Gynt - Improvisation for Unaccompanied Cello
- WORKS FOR STRING ENSEMBLE/STRINGS AND PIANO
- Piano Quintet - Stille Musik - String Trio/Piano Trio - Canon An das Frankfurter Opernhaus - Piano Quartet
- OTHER CHAMBER WORKS
- Serenade - Cantus Perpetuus for Keyboard and Percussion - Polyphonic Tango - Moz-Art/Moz-Art a la Haydn/Moz-Art a la Mozart - Septet - Lebenslauf - Schall und Hall - 3x7 - For the Ninetieth Birthday of Alfred Schlee - Percussion Quartet
- CHAPTER 7: KEYBOARD WORKS
- Introduction
- PIANO SONATAS
- Piano Sonata No. 1 - Piano Sonata No. 2 - Piano Sonata No. 3
- OTHER PIANO WORKS
- Children's Pieces, 1960 and 1971 - Prelude and Fugue - Improvisation and Fugue - Variations on a Chord - Dedication to Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich for Piano Six Hands - Five Aphorisms for Piano and Reciter - Sonatina for Pian
- ORGAN AND HARPSICHORD WORKS
- Two Short Pieces for Organ - Three Fragments for Harpsichord
- CHAPTER 8: FILM MUSIC
- Introduction - Igor Talankin - Andrei Khrzhanovsky - Aleksandr Mitta - Larisa Shepitko -
- Elem Klimov - Late Film Scores - Concert Suites
- WORKS LIST
- A NOTE ON SOURCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
