MUS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Tonality, Individualism
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Dmitri shostakovich: 1906-1975, soviet union, subject to approval and censorship, style: tonal, but dissonant, 15 symphonies, 15 string quartets. Communist: accessible to common people, nationalism, voice to the people, tonality. Modernists: experimentation, originalist, formalist, 12 tone system. Criticized: opera: lady macbeth of mtensk, criticism from communist party newspaper. 5: a soviet artist"s respo(cid:374)se to just criticis(cid:373, heroic, composed during the great terror (1936-1938, despair or forced celebration, (cid:862)dead e(cid:374)ds(cid:863) Secret messages/humor: dsch, musical signature, appeared in several works, string quartet no. 9: finale is nothing like beethoven no.
