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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The Myth of Jambyl (Based on Contemporary Kazakh Press) by Sergey Akimovich Kibalnik

“…The article cites excerpts from D. D. Shostakovich’s memoirs that have relatively recently been published in Russian and are kept in the Memoirs Archive of composer E. …”
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Entre Rideau de Fer et Dégel : panorama des opéras soviétiques 1945-1970 by Tetiana Zolozova-Le Menestrel

“…The immediate post-war “Iron Curtain” years in the USSR were a time of artistic and cultural stagnation due to Stalin’s and Jdanov’s diktats denouncing musical formalism and exalting the method of socialist realism, with such victims as Prokofiev and Shostakovich among others, leading to stereotyped libretti subjects set to an impoverished standardized musical idiom. …”
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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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Alfred Schnittke’s Third String Quartet: an intertextuality analysis by João Francisco de Souza Corrêa

“…The texts are: the main theme of Beethoven’s Great Fugue op. 133, a motif of Orlando Di Lasso's Stabat Mater and Shostakovich’s DSCH monogram. To this end, this study discusses: the use of citations and allusions according to Schnittke; the genesis ans stricture of the String Quartet n° 3; and the way in which the texts approprieted by Schnittke are reframed in his work. …”
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Tracing Politics and Postmodernism in The Noise of Time by Aida Džiho-Šator

“…Barnes intertwines the characteristics of both postmodernism and politicalnovel to render a fictional biography of Dimitri Shostakovich, a renowned Soviet composer wholived and worked through the oppression of Stalin’s regime and in the years of his successors.In his portrayal of the workings and implications that ideological artistic doctrines and forms ofpolitical power can have on artists, Barnes uses primarily intertextuality and historiographicmetafiction, and this paper will mostly focus on these two postmodernist elements of the novel.…”
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Aubrey Williams: Abstraction in Diaspora by Kobena Mercer

“…While retrospective exhibitions highlight the Olmec-Maya and Now series and the Shostakovich series produced during William’s circumatlantic journeys, both of which heighten abstraction as a medium of cross-cultural translation, the scholarship has left Williams isolated. …”
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THE SUITE IN FOLK STYLE FOR STRING QUARTET BY V. VERHOLA: THEMATIC AND COMPOSITIONAL PARTICULARITIES by MELNIC, VICTORIA, COȘCIUG, SVETLANA

“…In the III movement, the composer combines the polyphonic writing with various compositional devices, paying a tribute to the folkloric heritage, which inspired the themes, and to the composers, who served him as a model during his formation: D. Shostakovich and V. Zagorsky, evoking through different devices specific characteristics of their style. …”
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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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“The Captain Doesn’t Count Alone…”: M. Kuzmin and “The Sailors of Marseilles”... by Pavel V. Dmitriev

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The musical imagination of Andrei Platonov by Bullock, P

“…The article concludes by considering several parallels between Platonov and Shostakovich in the mid-1930s.…”

Magazine “Slavs” in Structure of Foreign Policy “Soft Power” in Slavic Movement during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945: Musical and Cultural Aspect by O. V. Tuzova

“…Socially significant musical events in the country and abroad highlighted in the magazine, having local and international resonance: the premiere of the Seventh Symphony of D. D. Shostakovich, performances, concerts, accompaniment of various political and scientific events, etc. are singled out. …”
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TOTALITARIAN NARRATIVE IN WORKS OF JULIAN BARNES by Ольга Юрьевна Анцыферова (Olga Yu. Antsyferova)

“…Cursorily touched upon in The Porcupine, the theme of art in a totalitarian society is thematized in The Noise of Time. The author uses Shostakovich’s biography to reflect on the nature of art, its trials and tribulations under totalitarianism, on complexities of the dialogue between the artist and the power, on admissible limits for an artist to seek for compromises with the power and with himself. …”
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DMITRY KITSENKO’S EARLY CREATION FOR ORGHAN by BEREZOVICOVA TATIANA, STREZEV MIHAIL

“…The article deals with two works by Dmitry Kitsenko’s for organ solo, created at the early stage of his work: the Prelude and Fugue to the Memory of D. Shostakovich (1979) and the Suite for Organ (1980) which are analyzed from the point of view of form, musical language and performance.…”
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Boris Tchaikovsky: composer’s pedagogy in the context of orchestral poetics by Yuriy B. Abdokov

“…Messner, V. Shebalin, D. Shostakovich and N. Myaskovsky. In the main section – “Orchestral poetics in the lessons of Boris Tchaikovsky” – the main concepts of orchestral poetics are formulated, the comprehension of which expands the possibilities of mastering the art of orchestration, the history of orchestral styles and, in general, musical composition. …”
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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 Great Terror” in the Contemporary British Novel by Olga Grigorievna Sidorova

“…Barnes’s novel is a brief biography of D. Shostakovich, but it is also a reflection on an artist’s existence under totalitarian pressure. …”
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Musikalischer Populismus und politischer Kollektivismus in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren by Christian Glanz

“…Alternatively, composers could aim directly for popularity through ehe subject matter and form of their work, as is shown by Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Further examples include the role played by Villa-Lobos in Brazil and Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus, which brought decisive and lasting success for the composer, who had previously been the subject of official suspicion. …”
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Slovenian Music in its Central European Context: the 20th-century experience by Niall O'Loughlin

“…Ivo Petrić's music follows the styles of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. From the late 1950s onwards  the situation  changed  with  strong contacts with Croatia, Poland and countries of the West: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States in particular. …”
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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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