Add to ORKGThis paper presents an analysis of the political climate in Soviet Russia and how the expectations and restrictions set by Andrey Zhdanov and the Central Committee effected Soviet composers. Travelling abroad to the United States, Germany, and France gave Prokofiev a wider world view but also pushed him to return to Russia as he was not as successful abroad as he had hoped. Compositional characteristics of Prokofiev’s music include the use of chromatic ‘wrong notes’ in otherwise tonal music and use of Russian folk melodies. Throughout his life Prokofiev tried to keep within the boundaries set by the Soviet government while still composing music that is uniquely and freely his.Thesis (M.M.
The politicization of musical life in Stalin's Russia is a subject which has attracted a great deal ...
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a 20th century Soviet-era composer. He is considered to be amon...
In opposition to the European dominated classical music, several Russian composers including a group...
This paper presents an analysis of the political climate in Soviet Russia and how the expectations ...
This study presents how music was affected during the political climate of the Soviet Union from Jos...
Composing in many different musical forms, Prokofiev and Shostakovich both reflected the turbulent, ...
This paper addresses the development of Russian and Soviet music from the 1860’s through Stalin’s te...
This thesis concerns issues of context, influence, form and performance in Serge Prokofiev's early s...
Sergei Prokofiev's film scores are unique for having attained a steadfast place in the canon of clas...
Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the few Soviet musicians able to balance his creative perceptions whi...
When Prokofiev wrote the Flute Sonata Op. 94, Soviet composers were torn between their own artistic ...
This dissertation is an historical, stylistic, and sociological analysis of new Russian music from t...
The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 was the culmination of over fifty years of political and social unr...
This paper is concerned with Prokofiev’s ballet score, Romeo and Juliet, as an inter-semiotic transl...
This paper explores Russian culture beginning in the mid nineteenth-century as the leading group of ...
The politicization of musical life in Stalin's Russia is a subject which has attracted a great deal ...
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a 20th century Soviet-era composer. He is considered to be amon...
In opposition to the European dominated classical music, several Russian composers including a group...
This paper presents an analysis of the political climate in Soviet Russia and how the expectations ...
This study presents how music was affected during the political climate of the Soviet Union from Jos...
Composing in many different musical forms, Prokofiev and Shostakovich both reflected the turbulent, ...
This paper addresses the development of Russian and Soviet music from the 1860’s through Stalin’s te...
This thesis concerns issues of context, influence, form and performance in Serge Prokofiev's early s...
Sergei Prokofiev's film scores are unique for having attained a steadfast place in the canon of clas...
Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the few Soviet musicians able to balance his creative perceptions whi...
When Prokofiev wrote the Flute Sonata Op. 94, Soviet composers were torn between their own artistic ...
This dissertation is an historical, stylistic, and sociological analysis of new Russian music from t...
The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 was the culmination of over fifty years of political and social unr...
This paper is concerned with Prokofiev’s ballet score, Romeo and Juliet, as an inter-semiotic transl...
This paper explores Russian culture beginning in the mid nineteenth-century as the leading group of ...
The politicization of musical life in Stalin's Russia is a subject which has attracted a great deal ...
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a 20th century Soviet-era composer. He is considered to be amon...
In opposition to the European dominated classical music, several Russian composers including a group...