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Author:   Marina Frolova-Walker (Professor of Music History, Professor of Music History, University of Cambridge) ,  Jonathan Walker (Freelance Writer and Private Teacher, Freelance Writer and Private Teacher)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 14.00cm
Weight:   0.327kg
ISBN:  

9780197566329

ISBN 10:   0197566324
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   07 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements About the Companion Website Note on Transliteration List of Themes Prelude Chapter 1. From the Fourth to the Fifth ""This is Chaos, Not Music"" (Not) The Fourth Symphony The Birth of the Fifth Three Streams of Reception Chapter 2. Musical Contexts Beethoven and Tchaikovsky Hindemith and Mahler Shostakovich's ""Eclecticism"" Chapter 3. The Phantom Program Intelligentsia and Revolution ""Maturation of Personality"" Chapter 4. The Faulty Metronome Mravinsky vs Bernstein Between the Two Poles Chapter 5. A Formula for Triumph The Great Citizen The Triumph Formula The Missing Theme Chapter 6 The End of the Affair A Secret Uncovered First Movement Second Movement Third Movement Fourth Movement Motto and Monogram Other Secrets Postlude Index

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Marina Frolova-Walker is Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College. She is the author of Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin (2007), Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (2016), and co-author of Music and Soviet Power, 1917-32 (2012). Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014, and the recipient of the RMA Dent Medal for her outstanding contribution to musicology, Professor Frolova-Walker is committed to sharing the insights gained from her research with a wider public through talks, radio and TV appearances, and publications. Jonathan Walker is a London-based freelance writer and private teacher of advanced piano and composition. He is co-author of Music and Soviet Power (2012). He studied at Edinburgh University, at the Liszt Academy, Budapest, and at Queen's University Belfast, where he defended his PhD dissertation on the musical-work concept. He has taught at Queen's University Belfast and Cambridge University, performed on BBC2 television, given talks for BBC Radio 4, and published translations from French and Russian.

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