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Alexander Dovzhenko
Alfred Schnittke
Andrei Rublev
Aram Khachaturian
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cinema
Conditional World
Dense
director composer collaboration
Dmitry Shostakovich
dramaturgy
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Feodor Dostoevsky
Film Music
film-opera analysis
films
gubaidulina
historical analysis Soviet cinema music
Human Suffering
ideological function music
Ivan Pyriev
Katerina Izmailova
Khachaturian
Leitmotiv Song
Merry Fellows
Moonlight Sonata
musical
Musical Dramaturgy
Programme Music
Rimsky Korsakov
screen
shostakovich's
Shostakovich's Music
silent
socialist realism music
sofia
Sofia Gubaidulina
sound-visual counterpoint
Soviet avant-garde composers
Soviet Film Music
Taras Shevchenko
version
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9783718659111
- Weight: 725g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Harwood-Academic Publishers
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the years 1917 to 1991, despite unfavorable prevailing conditions, there were outstanding achievements in the music created for the cinema in the Soviet Union. Perhaps in no other country was film music associated with so many distinguished composers: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich, Isaak Dunayevsky, Georgy Sviridov, Aram Khachaturian, Alfred Schnittke, Nikolai Karetnikov, Edward Artemyev, Edison Denisov, and Sofia Gubaidulina. They were ready to accept film directors' invitations because they considered the cinema to be a perfect laboratory for testing the concepts and themes for future operas, symphonies, oratorios, and other large-scale compositions. A remarkable characteristic of Soviet film music was the appearance of successful director - composer collaborations, such as the famous 'duets' of Eisenstein - Prokofiev, Kozintsev - Shostakovich and Tarkovsky - Artemyev. This fascinating volume is the first attempt at a historical analysis of Soviet film music - a unique and full
