Shostakovich Studies 2

Pauline Fairclough is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol, and a specialist in Russian and Soviet music. She is editor, with David Fanning, of The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich and author of A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Together with Olga Digonskaya, Pauline chairs the International Musicological Society's study group 'Shostakovich and his Environment'.

• Introduction; Part I. Archival Studies: 1. Interrupted masterpiece: Shostakovich's unfinished opera Orango Olga Digonskaya; 2. Notes from Shostakovich's diary Olga Dombrovskaya; 3. Mitya Shostakovich's first opus (dating the Scherzo Op. 1) Olga Digonskaya; Part II. Analysis and Interpretation: 4. Shostakovich and structural hearing David Fanning; 5. Socialist realism, modernism and Dmitriy Shostakovich's Odna (Alone, 1929–31) Joan Titus; 6. Shostakovich's politics of D minor and its neighbours, 1931–49 Patrick McCreless; 7. Shostakovich and 'polyphonic' creativity: the Fourteenth Symphony revisited Kristian Hibberd; 8. The poet's echo, the composer's voice: monologic verse or dialogic song? Philip Ross Bullock; Part III. Context: 9. 'Muddle instead of music' in 1936: cataclysm of musical administration Simo Mikkonen; 10. Shostakovich and Dolmatovsky: a last memoir Pauline Fairclough; 11. Shostakovich, Proletkul't and RAPM Levon Hakobian.

"As Fairclough notes in her introduction, the essays in this collection reflect a growing sophistication among Shostakovich scholars, and a notable shift in tone from the notorious 'Shosta kovich wars' of the 1990s" -Judith Kuhn,University of Wisconsin