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Aspects of Blasphemy in Soviet Music

Abstract

The article analyzes an actual, but still insufficiently developed in modern music-historical studies topic. The atheistic worldview determined the ideological attitudes of Soviet society for more than one decade, but it was not significantly reflected in the art of that time. In musical works, this issue was rare. But a number of composers did focus their attention on atheistic "subjects".

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Soviet music, anti-religious propaganda, atheism in music, G. N. Ivanov, A. P. Petrov, V. A. Usovich, A. Viach. Novikov

Siciliano – Illustrations and Comment Fragments (to Hans Zender, to whom the “Dance Suite with a Song about Germany” is dedicated)

Abstract

This publication presents a translation of Helmut Lachenmann’s article, which concerns the analysis of his own piece Siciliano, which is one of the parts of his Dance Suite with a Song about Germany (Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied). First publication: Lachenmann H. Siciliano – Abbildungen und Kommentarfragmente («Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied») // Schweizerische Musikzeitung. 1983. Jg. 123. H. 6 (Nov./Dez. 1983). S. 348-356.

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