Aspects of the "Jewish" folk idiom in Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No 4, Op 83 (1949)

This thesis examines the context in which the Soviet composer Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich turned to the "Jewish" folk idiom in his Fourth String Quartet, op. 83 (1949). The Fourth String Quartet falls into the second of three "Jewish" periods of composition, a period that ali...

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Main Author: Watson, Jada
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27742
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-18883