The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke

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