Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music : Tonality, Modernism, Serialism (Paperback)

Table of Contents Contributors Introduction 　 Part I: Tonality Chapter 1 Tonal Pairing in Two of Rachmaninoff’s Songs Ellen Bakulina Chapter 2 Abundant Novelty of Antitonic Harmony in the Music of Nikolai Myaskovsky Scott Murphy Chapter 3 House of Mirrors: Distorted Proportions in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Rebecca Perry Chapter 4 A Curiosity in the Early String Quartets of Shostakovich, and Its Precedents in Previous Works Patrick McCreless Chapter 5 Navigating Post-Soviet Armenia: On Decoloniality in Tigran Mansurian’s Requiem Knar Abrahamyan 　 Part II: Modernism Chapter 6 Fifths’ Paths through Nikolai Roslavets’s Three Poems of Zinaida Gippius Inessa Bazayev Chapter 7 Alexander Mosolov’s Piano Sonata No. 1 and Its Synthetic Modernism Daniil Zavlunov Chapter 8 The Rebirth of Melody in Lourie’s Post-Neoclassical Concerto da camera Klara Moricz Chapter 9 The Features of Alexander Tcherepnin’s Nine-Step Scale and Its Use in the First Movement of His First Symphony Joshua Bedford Chapter 10 Timbre and Vibration in Galina Ustvolskaya’s Composition No. 1, "Dona nobis pacem" Maria Cizmic 　 Part III: Serialism Chapter 11 Edison Denisov and Multiple-Row Serialism Zachary Cairns Chapter 12 Historical and Stylistic Reconciliation in Sofia Gubaidulina’s Reflections on the Theme BACH Joseph Straus Chapter 13 Monogram, Theme, and Large-Scale Form in Alfred Schnittke’s Viola Concerto Christopher Segall Index