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October (Shostakovich), the Glossary

October, Op.^[1]

71 relations: And Quiet Flows the Don, Andrew Davis (conductor), Bassoon, Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Bloody Sunday (1905), Brass section, C major, C minor, Cello, Chandos Records, Clarinet, Contrabassoon, Cor anglais, Cossacks, Cymbal, David Fanning (musicologist), David Geffen Hall, David Oistrakh, Dmitri Shostakovich, Dmitri Smirnov (composer), Double bass, Duple and quadruple metre, First World, French horn, Hans Sikorski, Isaac Glikman, Kirill Kondrashin, Krzysztof Meyer, Loyalty (Shostakovich), Maxim Shostakovich, Mikhail Sholokhov, Moscow Conservatory, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Mosfilm, New York Daily News, New York Philharmonic, Newsday, Oboe, October Revolution, Opus number, Orchestra, Percussion section, Piccolo, Pravda, Russian Civil War, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Snare drum, Socialist realism, Song of the Forests, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, ... Expand index (21 more) »
1967 compositions
Compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich
Works about the Russian Revolution

And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don (Quiet Flows the Don or The Silent Don, Тихий Дон, literally The Quiet Don) is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov.

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Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sir Andrew Frank Davis (2 February 1944 – 20 April 2024) was an English conductor.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park

Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park (Russian: Retrieved May 27, 2015. Национальный парк «Беловежская пуща», Нацыянальны парк Белавежская пушча) is a national park within parts of the Brest Region (Kamyanyets District and Pruzhany District) and Grodno Region (Svislach District) in Belarus adjacent to the Polish border.

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Bloody Sunday (1905)

Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday (p) was the series of events on Sunday, in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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Brass section

The brass section of the orchestra, concert band, and jazz ensemble consist of brass instruments, and is one of the main sections in all three ensembles.

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C major

C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common keys used in music.

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C minor

C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, flat, F, G, flat, and flat.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Chandos Records

Chandos Records is a British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Contrabassoon

The contrabassoon, also known as the double bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower.

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Cor anglais

The cor anglais (or original; plural: cors anglais) Longman has /kɔːz/ for British and /kɔːrz/ for American -->, or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family.

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Cossacks

The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.

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Cymbal

A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.

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David Fanning (musicologist)

David Fanning (born 1955) is a professor of music at the University of Manchester.

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David Geffen Hall

David Geffen Hall is a concert hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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David Oistrakh

David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (– 24 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.

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Dmitri Smirnov (composer)

Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (Дми́трий Никола́евич Смирно́в; 2 November 1948 – 9 April 2020) was a Russian-British composer and academic teacher, who also published as Dmitri N. Smirnov and D. Smirnov-Sadovsky.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).

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Duple and quadruple metre

Duple metre (or Am. duple meter, also known as duple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 2 and multiples (simple) or 6 and multiples (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with (cut time),, and (at a fast tempo) being the most common examples.

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First World

The concept of the First World was originally one of the "Three Worlds" formed by the global political landscape of the Cold War, as it grouped together those countries that were aligned with the Western Bloc of the United States.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Hans Sikorski

Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski is an international music publishing company in Berlin, formerly headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

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Isaac Glikman

Isaac Davydovich Glikman (1911–2003) was a Soviet literary critic, theater critic, librettist, screenwriter, and teacher at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

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Kirill Kondrashin

Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin (– 7 March 1981) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.

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Krzysztof Meyer

Krzysztof Meyer (born 11 August 1943) is a Polish composer, pianist, and music scholar, formerly dean of the Department of Music Theory (1972–1975) at the State College of Music (now Academy of Music in Kraków), and president of the Union of Polish Composers (1985–1989).

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Loyalty (Shostakovich)

Loyalty (Vyernost'; also translated as Faith, Truth, Correctness, Faithfulness, or Fidelity), Op. October (Shostakovich) and Loyalty (Shostakovich) are compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich.

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Maxim Shostakovich

Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Макси́м Дми́триевич Шостако́вич; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist.

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Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (p; – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Moskovskaya gosudarstvennaya konservatoriya im.) is a musical educational institution located in Moscow, Russia.

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Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra based in Moscow, Russia.

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Mosfilm

Mosfilm (Мосфильм, Mosfil’m) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City.

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Newsday

Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Opus number

In music, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a musical composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's publication of that work.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Percussion section

The percussion section is one of the main divisions of the orchestra and the concert band.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Pravda

Pravda (a, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Snare drum

The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.

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Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature and the visual arts.

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Song of the Forests

The Song of the Forests (Песнь о лесах), Op. October (Shostakovich) and Song of the Forests are compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich.

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State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation

The State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov" (Государственный академический симфонический оркестр России имени Е. Ф. Светланова) is a Russian orchestra based in Moscow.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Symphonic poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source.

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Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No.

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Tim Page (music critic)

Tim Page (born Ellis Batten Page Jr.; 11 October 1954) is an American writer, music critic, editor, producer and professor who won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his music criticism for The Washington Post.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Triple metre

Triple metre (or Am. triple meter, also known as triple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 3 (simple) or 9 (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with, and being the most common examples.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Union of Russian Composers

The Union of Russian Composers (formerly the Union of Soviet Composers, Order of Lenin Union of Composers of USSR (1932-), and Union of Soviet Composers of the USSR) is a state-created organization for musicians and musicologists created in 1932 by Joseph Stalin in the last year of the Cultural Revolution and first Five-Year Plan.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_(Shostakovich)

Also known as October (symphonic poem).

, String section, Symphonic poem, Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich), Tim Page (music critic), Timpani, Triple metre, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, Union of Russian Composers, United Press International, Vasilyev brothers, Viola, Violin, Violin Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich), Western concert flute, William Zakariasen, Woodwind section.

October (Shostakovich), the Glossary

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See also

1967 compositions

Compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich

Works about the Russian Revolution

References