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Mind Map by Isaac McDermott, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Isaac McDermott
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Shostakovich's 5th Symphony
- Background information
- Referred to as
the voice of
Soviet Russia
- Lived under the
oppression of
communism
(Joseph Stalin)
- He managed to avoid
confrontation with that regime
- He managed to avoid
confrontation with that regime
- Lived under the
oppression of
communism
(Joseph Stalin)
- Artistic suppression
- Anything seen critical of the
regime would lead to
imprisonment in a gulag or
assassination
- Anything seen critical of the
regime would lead to
imprisonment in a gulag or
assassination
- In 1931 he starts work on Lady
Macbeth (opera) and this became
under scrutiny from Stalin
- In the PRAVDA newspaper an
article appeared ordered by Stalin
and the opera was banned
- He then lived in fear but decided in
1937 to write Symphony 5, knowing
his reputation and possibly his life
depended on its reception
- He then lived in fear but decided in
1937 to write Symphony 5, knowing
his reputation and possibly his life
depended on its reception
- In the PRAVDA newspaper an
article appeared ordered by Stalin
and the opera was banned
- The premier took
place on 21st
November 1937
- People cried during the 3rd movement
which was illegal and also at the end it
received a half an hour applause
- People cried during the 3rd movement
which was illegal and also at the end it
received a half an hour applause
- Referred to as
the voice of
Soviet Russia
- Instrumentation
- Woodwind
- piccolo
- 2 flutes
- 2 oboes
- 2 clarinets in A & Bb
- clarinet in Eb
- 2 bassoons
- Contrabassoon
- piccolo
- Brass
- 4 horns
- 3 trumpets
- 2 trombones
- bass trombone
- tuba
- 4 horns
- Strings
- 2 harps
- violins
- violas
- cellos
- double bass
- 2 harps
- Percussion
- piano
- celeste
- timpani
- snare drum
- bass drum
- cymbals
- xylophone
- glockenspiel
- triangle
- piano
- Woodwind
- 1st Movement
- 18 minutes long - twisted and tormented
- Sonata form principle however
the tonality is not standard
- Exposition
- 1st subject - D Minor
- 2nd subject - Eb Minor
- Eb minor creates a dark effect
which hints at the phrygian mode
- Eb minor creates a dark effect
which hints at the phrygian mode
- Developmental - main material is
explored and developed
- 2nd subject - Eb Minor
- 4 main motifs introduced
- 1st subject - D Minor
- Recapitulation
- 1st subject - D Minor
- 2nd subject - D Major
- 2nd subject - D Major
- 1st subject - D Minor
- Development
- Disproportionally long reflecting
the turmoil and struggle
- Disproportionally long reflecting
the turmoil and struggle
- Exposition
- Sparse and angry themes -
canonic and angular
- Sonata form principle however
the tonality is not standard
- Use of aeolian and
phrygian mode
- 18 minutes long - twisted and tormented
- 2nd movement
- Scherzo (A minor, phrygian modal
character) & Trio (C major)
- Links to Minuet & Trio -
traditionally comical mood
- Links to Minuet & Trio -
traditionally comical mood
- Weighty sounds
- Brighter sounds such as the
celeste and piano are removed
- Brighter sounds such as the
celeste and piano are removed
- Opens with a solitary but
heavy bass line, repressing
heavy-footed peasants
- 5 woodwinds
- Eb clarinet - shrill and loud
- Eb clarinet - shrill and loud
- 'oom pah pah' waltz pattern (bars
45-64) and playful use of
hemiola/cross-rhythm, staccato
and dotted rhythms
- Trio section sounds
like a music-box
- Cheeky and playful with upward
leaps (3rd to a 10th) and
glissandos - drunk folk fiddler
- Cheeky and playful with upward
leaps (3rd to a 10th) and
glissandos - drunk folk fiddler
- Alterations to the Scherzo
repeat - not a standard da capo
- Fanfare appears in distant key
(F# minor) - bar 144 onwards
- Use of a tritone - representing
evil, Stalin's Soviet state
- Scherzo (A minor, phrygian modal
character) & Trio (C major)
- 3rd movement
- Aura of grief in this
slow movement
- F# minor
- Written in response to his friend
being executed - Tukhachevsky
- People cried during it
- F# minor
- It has quotes of Russian
Orthodox hymn harmonies
- No brass as the
sound is not
appropriate
- Instead the strings where
divided into 8 sections
- Creating a rich
expressive texture
- Creating a rich
expressive texture
- Instead the strings where
divided into 8 sections
- The winds are used as
lonely solo voices
- This represents the missing
souls of loved ones
- This represents the missing
souls of loved ones
- The percussion add
touches of colour
- This is through the celeste,
xylophone and glockenspiel
- This is through the celeste,
xylophone and glockenspiel
- Light harp, oscillating
between two chords
- Tension is created
through a rising
chromatic line
(bars 45-61)
- Ethereal wind solos supported
by fragile tremolo
- Intensity
increases at
bars 103-120
- This is from dynamics,
dissonance and
accenting weaker beats
- This is from dynamics,
dissonance and
accenting weaker beats
- Harp harmonics and celeste
give an ice like effect
- Beautiful and pure,
yet cold and desolate
- Beautiful and pure,
yet cold and desolate
- Final string chord rests on a
Tierce de Picardie
- Rare moment of real
repose in this symphony
- Rare moment of real
repose in this symphony
- Aura of grief in this
slow movement
- 4th movement
- Ambiguous meaning
- Triumphant hymn
- Defiant solidarity
- Struggles of
an artistic
genius?
- Triumphant hymn
- Film music structure
- Tells a story with three
main sections (sonata form)
- Tells a story with three
main sections (sonata form)
- Quotes from 'Rebirth'
- Winds trill to
create alarm feel
- Then immediately
into a march
- Then immediately
into a march
- Use of tritone
- Repeated As
- Huge use of
percussion
- Octatonic scale
-figure 99
- Driving rhythms
- Ambiguous meaning
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