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Tracing the Traditions and Incongruities: A Theoretical Analysis and Performance Guide of Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35

Chen, Vikki
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1695375797204651

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2023, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Piano.
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35 (1933) is a brilliant, lively work written during a politically unstable and increasingly repressive time in Russia. Shostakovich quotes Haydn and Beethoven, uses a variety of topics and styles in the manner of Mozart’s opera buffa, and creates a sonata-concerto form that is simultaneously traditional yet ambiguous in its delineations. The myriad of styles, alterations of form, and tonal language present difficulties in analyzing and conceptualizing the work using only one current theory of analysis. Thus, in this document, I will present a two-point theoretical analysis of the concerto using Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory and aspects of Topic Theory to show how the piece builds from traditions of form and style. Then, I will present the incongruities of styles, topics, and form to elucidate multiple interpretations through the perspective of humor, irony, satire, and parody. This document synthesizes current theoretical knowledge to present individual, research-based, interpretative options for performers of the work.
David Carson Berry, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Andy Villemez (Committee Member)
Christopher Segall, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
121 p.
Music
Dmitri Shostakovich; Sonata Theory; topic theory; Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings; performance guide

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  • Chen, V. (2023). Tracing the Traditions and Incongruities: A Theoretical Analysis and Performance Guide of Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35 [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1695375797204651

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chen, Vikki. Tracing the Traditions and Incongruities: A Theoretical Analysis and Performance Guide of Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35. 2023. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1695375797204651.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chen, Vikki. "Tracing the Traditions and Incongruities: A Theoretical Analysis and Performance Guide of Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1695375797204651

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