Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR

ISBN-13: 9780197541258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 430 str.

Peter J. Schmelz

Recenzje

Part biography, part aesthetic inquiry, Sonic Overload is — like polystylism itself — vastly more than the sum of its many scintillating parts. Schmelz's book is a wholesale revision of Soviet music history after Stalin. Its significance for future research and listening is simply monumental.

O autorze

Peter J. Schmelz is Professor of Musicology at Arizona State University, and author of Alfred Schnittkeâs Concerto Grosso No. 1 (OUP, 2019) and Such Freedom, If Only Musical: Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw (OUP, 2009)