{"title":"Of Majesty, Mockery, and Misprints: The Coda of Shostakovich’s Fifth on Record","authors":"P. Kupfer","doi":"10.1080/01411896.2022.2074845","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on work by José Bowen, Nicholas Cook, and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, in this article I examine the performance history of the coda of Dmitry Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony (1937) through statistical analysis of tempo in 152 recordings made between 1938 and 2019. I contextualize the trends that emerge from this data within the unique mix of errors, myths, and ideologies that have informed the performance and reception history of the symphony. Ultimately, I demonstrate how changing historical circumstances can affect the meanings of performances (as preserved in recordings) and how empirical methods can help reveal patterns among them.","PeriodicalId":42616,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2022.2074845","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Drawing on work by José Bowen, Nicholas Cook, and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, in this article I examine the performance history of the coda of Dmitry Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony (1937) through statistical analysis of tempo in 152 recordings made between 1938 and 2019. I contextualize the trends that emerge from this data within the unique mix of errors, myths, and ideologies that have informed the performance and reception history of the symphony. Ultimately, I demonstrate how changing historical circumstances can affect the meanings of performances (as preserved in recordings) and how empirical methods can help reveal patterns among them.
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The Journal of Musicological Research publishes original articles on all aspects of the discipline of music: historical musicology, style and repertory studies, music theory, ethnomusicology, music education, organology, and interdisciplinary studies. Because contemporary music scholarship addresses critical and analytical issues from a multiplicity of viewpoints, the Journal of Musicological Research seeks to present studies from all perspectives, using the full spectrum of methodologies. This variety makes the Journal a place where scholarly approaches can coexist, in all their harmony and occasional discord, and one that is not allied with any particular school or viewpoint.