Private feelings and public statements in the music of Dmitry Shostakovich by Jan Špaček

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Dmitri Shostakovich: a work of virtuosity or a profitable misfortune? by Germán José Medina-Rincón, Sofía Martínez-Gil, Luis Octavio Tierradentro-García, Eduardo Esteban Orrego-González, Juan Sebastián Botero-Meneses

“…Abstract Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the greatest composers of 20th century, famous for his piano and violin compositions. …”
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Soviet Music in Interwar Yugoslavia by Marija Golubović

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ABOUT THE MUSIC OF DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH IN THE ACCUMULATION OF MEANING OF THE ETHICAL CONCEPT OF GRIGORIY KOZINTSEV’S FILMS “HAMLET” AND “KING LEAR” / О музыке Д.... by KONSON GRIGORY R. / Консон Григорий

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VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF MUSIC IMAGES IN CARTOONS by Lesovichenko Andrey M., Shefova Elena A.

“…The article is dedicate to the Soviet and the foreign cartoon interpretations of program music works by Russian composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich. The authors correlate and compare the original musical texts with the animated film results.…”
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Tragický úděl jednotlivce v dějinách Osud Dmitrije Šostakoviče v románovém zpracování Juliana Barnese // The tragic destiny of an individual in history by Ladislav Nagy

“…For this purpose, Barnes misreads the life story of Dmitri Shostakovich, whom he portrays as an individual fighting the repressive system by “internal emigration” and obsession with his own work.…”
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Voreki tomu vremeni… Otec i syn Faddej Francevič Zelinskij i Adrian Ivanovic Piotrovskij by Olga Śmiechowicz

“…After the premiere of the ballet The Limpid Stream (with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, libretto by Petrovsky), censors banned the piece and Petrovsky was attacked in a “Pravda” editorial. …”
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Altered but Not Silenced: How Shostakovich Retained His Voice as an Artist despite the Demands of a Dictator by Hope R. Strayer

“…People in authority have held power and control over artistic processes. Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer whose work was subjected to the tastes of a tyrannical ruler and Communist party. …”
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Multimodal emergens via musik - Eksemplificeret ved en reklamefilm og en dokumentarfilm [Emergent forms of meaning-making using music in multimodal compositions - Exemplified throu... by Anders Bonde

“…All three audio-visual clips include the same musical composition (“Waltz No. 2” by Dmitri Shostakovich), but compared to each other, the music takes on different roles and positions against the other modalities/resources, and consequently, different types of meaning emergence are shaped.…”
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The Connection between Literature and Music in “Dead Symphony” by Abbas Maroufi by Abdullah Albughobaish, Fatemeh Golbabaee

“…Following this model, the present study has analyzed the relationship between music and literature in the novel "Dead Symphony" by Iranian novelist Abbas Maroufi, and at the same time, it has compared the aforementioned novel with Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 from the structural perspective. …”
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Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978): A Retrospective by David Z. Kushner

“…Of the three stalwart Soviet composers who had achieved international fame during the reign of Josef Stalin, namely Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Aram Khachaturian, it was the latter who most consistently exemplified the tenets of Soviet Realism. …”
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