Dmitry Shostakovich

Symphony № 8, op. 65 (1942)

a. Adagio. II. Allegretto. III. Allegro non troppo.

IV. Largo. V. Allegretto.

The Eights Symphony came one year after the Seventh, and was heard for the first time at a festival of Soviet music in Moscow on November 4. 1943, with Eugene Mravinsky conducting the State Symphony Orchestra.

Shostakovich explained that this Symphony was an attempt "to look into the future, into the postwar epoch." "Life is beautiful," Shostakovich wrote in explaining the mood of the work, "and all that dark and ignominious will disappear. All that is beautiful with triumph." But though the composer intended it as an optimistic utterance, the Symphony has a pervading feeling of deep tragedy, as though Shostakovich could not forget the war that was raging so bitterly all around him.

It opens with a long and very lyrical Adagio movement. The principal subject is a soaring melody for the first violin. The basic theme is preceded by a pleasing duet for high and low strings which opens and closes the movement. The second movement is a march. The next three movements proceed without interruption. The third carries on the rhythmic momentum of the second. The fourth is in a form suggesting a passacaglia, the bass of which recalls the opening theme of the symphony. The fifth is pastoral music in which a series of melodic ideas is presented by different solo instruments.

(from The Home Book of 20^th

Century Music by D. Ewen)

Ex.12. ¯? Listen to two arrangements of the same music piece Pictures of an Exhibition Promenade I by Mussorgsky and fill in the table below. Write the analysis of both arrangements according to the instructions in Ex.11.

	Piece 1	Piece 2
Instruments
Rhythm
Melody
Style of performing
Expressiveness
Mood
Associations

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