A Study On The Duality Of Shostakovich’s Musical Concepts

Dmitry Dmitriyevich·Schostakovich(1906-1975)is one of the most important composers in the former Soviet Union,its creation techniques,aesthetic thinking to the 20th century Music development is lifted.Schostakovich is a multi-produced composer,which has a tree in a variety of musical genre,etc.Among them,the 15 symphony works of Shore’s creation are associated with each other,interdependent,and organically constitute a form of ambient symphony building,real recorded the history and social reality of the Sovietary of the upper half of the 20th century,directly reflecting his brilliant Struggle,optimistic and tragic life.This paper takes Shostakovich’s musical concept as the research object.The preceding content includes an introduction and three chapters.The contents of each chapter are as follows:The first chapter mainly discusses how Shostakovich’s musical conception developed in different stages of his life from the background and ideological resources of Shostakovich’s musical conception.This chapter starts from the characteristics of the times of Xiao’s symphonies,on the basis of sorting out the background of the creation of each symphony,combined with the social factors such as the two major musical schools in the early Soviet Union,cultural policies in different periods and World War Ⅱ,and Xiao’s self-consciousness,Complexity,a detailed and comprehensive discussion of the conditions under which Shostakovich’s artistic conception was formed.This chapter is divided into five subsections.The first section briefly summarizes the development of Shaw’s symphonies,and the second,third and fourth sections comprehensively analyze how Shostakovich absorbed the new techniques of the modern school and learned from the creative styles of other musicians in the same period,and made his music in the Soviet Union.Under the influence of the political environment,social environment,literary thought and cultural policy,he started his own creation;the fifth subsection analyzes personal factors,that is,Shostakovich’s own personality and life experience.The second chapter mainly discusses the duality of Shostakovich’s musical creation.Shostakovich’s artistic conception combines the important achievements of various aesthetic theories such as romanticism,modernism,expressionism,realism,socialist realism,traditional classicism and Russian national music.Thought has thus presented a complex multi-faceted and comprehensive.Combing Xiao’s creative context,the most prominent artistic concept is the duality in the creative process,that is,the tragic aesthetics of optimism,which is concentrated in three aspects:music style,creative content and creative principles.In terms of musical style,influenced by modernism and Russian folk music,Xiao’s creation has a very typical unity of romanticism and realism.In terms of the content of his works,Xiao’s early creations combined Russian proletarian ideas with new techniques of modernism.and in his middle and late creations,after combining the principles of tragic aesthetics with the optimism of socialist realism,a "mad monk" musical vocabulary appeared.In terms of creation principles,it combines the classical creation principles with modern techniques and the socialist realism creation principles to fully demonstrate the multiple faces of social life in the Soviet Union at that time.The third chapter is based on the musical style,creative content and creative principles,and the duality of Shostakovich’s musical creation is also very important in the notation and musical structure.Combining his five representative symphony works,we can roughly divide his creative techniques into two categories,namely secret freedom and formal adaptation.Hidden freedom includes Xiao’s original hidden creative techniques such as "isomorphism","combination of description and evolution","signature motivation" and "characteristic rhythm",revealing the background behind this series of complex techniques by Shostakovich It has the intention of protecting the work;the conformity in form mainly includes three notable creative techniques:the chromatic characteristics of tonal,the return of musical structure to tradition,and the unification of form and content,which are the concrete embodiment of Xiao’s artistic creation principles.On this basis,Xiao’s symphonies show the unity of tragedy and shyness at the same time.Combining rhythm,melody,orchestration and other visual creations,we can further feel the complexity and depth of the tune of the work.Throughout Shostakovich’s life,when faced with the dilemma of free will and control,he chose to use vague,ambiguous language to seek the best balance to create new forms of artistic expression.Preserving the last "chastity" while compromising makes the duality feature in the music appear.Shostakovich’s work is unique mainly reflected in his creative conception.He broke with the traditional structure and transformed the inherent musical logic,and Shostakovich was good at recreating the themes that had appeared before,giving new connotations to the themes and making them logically related to each other’s 15 symphonic works.This way of rethinking and developing thematic materials on the basis of the original works is enough to prove the uniqueness of Shostakovich’s creation,who has struggled for his own creative ideals all his life.On the one hand,the training of his solid basic skills is for his works to look complete and delicate,on the other hand,in order to accurately portray things,and strive to make every note contain "intentional content" and achieve an artistic realm where form and content are unified.It can be said that Shaw’s emotional foundation is based on the Russian people’s concept of humanity,with real and noble characteristics.Shostakovich uses musical symbols with less semantic content to integrate previously impermissible satirical content into the work,secretly expressing his own critical thoughts,profoundly revealing the essence of social life,celebrating the brilliance of human nature,and also a great enrichment of the creative aesthetic principles of the international composing community.