Irony, satire, parody, and the grotesque in the music of Shostakovich : a theory of musical incongruities

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Label

Irony, satire, parody, and the grotesque in the music of Shostakovich : a theory of musical incongruities

Title remainder

a theory of musical incongruities

Statement of responsibility

Esti Sheinberg ; music engravings by Ofer Sheinberg

Creator

• Sheinberg, Esti, 1954-

Subject

• Humor
• Humor in music
• Grotesque in music
• Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Humor
• Music -- Semiotics

Genre

• Humor

Language

eng

Summary

• "The music of Shostakovich has been at the centre of interest of both the general public and dedicated scholars throughout the last twenty years. Most of the relevant literature, however, is of a biographical nature."
• "The focus of this book is musical irony. It offers new methodologies for the semiotic analysis of music, and inspects the ironical messages in Shostakovich's music independently of political and biographical bias. Its approach to music is interdisciplinary, comparing musical devices with artistic principles and literary analyses of satire, irony, parody and the grotesque. Each one of these modes is firstly inspected and defined as a separate subject, independent of music. The results of these inspections are subsequently applied to music, firstly in general and then more specifically to the music of Shostakovich
• The composer's cultural and historical milieux are taken into account and, where relevant, inspected and analysed separately before their application to the music."--Jacket
• "The music of Shostakovich has been at the centre of interest of both the general public and dedicated scholars throughout the last twenty years. Most of the relevant literature, however, is of a biographical nature." "The focus of this book is musical irony. It offers new methodologies for the semiotic analysis of music, and inspects the ironical messages in Shostakovich's music independently of political and biographical bias. Its approach to music is interdisciplinary, comparing musical devices with artistic principles and literary analyses of satire, irony, parody and the grotesque. Each one of these modes is firstly inspected and defined as a separate subject, independent of music. The results of these inspections are subsequently applied to music, firstly in general and then more specifically to the music of Shostakovich. The composer's cultural and historical milieux are taken into account and, where relevant, inspected and analysed separately before their application to the music."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

780/.92

Illustrations

• illustrations
• music
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

ML410.S53

LC item number

S45 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography