This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand. In A Schnittke Reader, the composer speaks of his life, his works, other composers, performers, and a broad range of topics in 20th-century music. The volume is rounded out with reflections by some of Schnittke's contemporaries.
This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand. In A Schnittke Reader, the composer speaks of his life, his works, other composers, performers, and a broad range of topics in 20th-century music. The volume is rounded out with reflections by some of Schnittke's contemporaries.
Alfred Schnittke was one of the great composers of the twentieth century. Alexander Ivashkin is Professor of Music and Director of the Centre for Russian Music at the University of London. A cellist, he often performs works by Schnittke. Translator John Goodliffe is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Preliminary Table of Contents: Preface by Mstislav Rostropovich Translator's Note Schnittke talks about himself From an interview with Alexander Ivashkin Letter to the Lenin Prize Committee (1990) Schnittke on his own compositions On Concerto Grosso No. 1 On the premiere of his Fourth Symphony On film and film music On staging Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades Schnittke on creative artists Composers On Shostakovich: circles of influence On Prokofiev On Gubaidulina On Kancheli In Memory of Filipp Moiseevich Gershkovich (Philip Hershkovish) Peformers On Svyatoslav Richter On Gennady Rozhdestvensky Subjective Notes on an Objective Performance (on Aleksey Lyubimov) A Writer On Viktor Yerofeev A Painter On the Paintings of Vladimir Yankilevsky V. Schnittke on twentieth-century music 1. Polystylistic tendencies in modern music 2. The orchestra and "the new music" 3. The problem of giving outward expression to a new idea 4. From Schnittke's archive 5. On jazz 6. Timbral relationships and their functional use: the timbral scale 7. "Klangfarbenmelodie"-"Melody of timbres" 8. Functional instability of voice-leading in musical texture 9. A new approach to composition: the statistical method 10. Stereophonic tendencies in modern orchestral thinking 11. Using rhythm to overcome metre 12. Static form: a new conception of time 13. Paradox as a feature of Stravinsky's musical logic 14. Timbre modulations in Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta 15. The closed system of timbre connections in the Bach-Webern Ricercata fugue 16. The third movement of Luciano Berio's Symphony 17. Orchestral micropolyphony in the music of Ligeti VI. Schnittke as seen by others Gidon Kremer Gennady Rozhdestvensky Vladimir Yankilevsky Mstislav Rostropovich Mark Lubotsky Sources Index of names and works
Preliminary Table of Contents: Preface by Mstislav Rostropovich Translator's Note Schnittke talks about himself From an interview with Alexander Ivashkin Letter to the Lenin Prize Committee (1990) Schnittke on his own compositions On Concerto Grosso No. 1 On the premiere of his Fourth Symphony On film and film music On staging Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades Schnittke on creative artists Composers On Shostakovich: circles of influence On Prokofiev On Gubaidulina On Kancheli In Memory of Filipp Moiseevich Gershkovich (Philip Hershkovish) Peformers On Svyatoslav Richter On Gennady Rozhdestvensky Subjective Notes on an Objective Performance (on Aleksey Lyubimov) A Writer On Viktor Yerofeev A Painter On the Paintings of Vladimir Yankilevsky V. Schnittke on twentieth-century music 1. Polystylistic tendencies in modern music 2. The orchestra and "the new music" 3. The problem of giving outward expression to a new idea 4. From Schnittke's archive 5. On jazz 6. Timbral relationships and their functional use: the timbral scale 7. "Klangfarbenmelodie"-"Melody of timbres" 8. Functional instability of voice-leading in musical texture 9. A new approach to composition: the statistical method 10. Stereophonic tendencies in modern orchestral thinking 11. Using rhythm to overcome metre 12. Static form: a new conception of time 13. Paradox as a feature of Stravinsky's musical logic 14. Timbre modulations in Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta 15. The closed system of timbre connections in the Bach-Webern Ricercata fugue 16. The third movement of Luciano Berio's Symphony 17. Orchestral micropolyphony in the music of Ligeti VI. Schnittke as seen by others Gidon Kremer Gennady Rozhdestvensky Vladimir Yankilevsky Mstislav Rostropovich Mark Lubotsky Sources Index of names and works
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