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Hatch, Amy M. Developing Ogolevets's Doubly Augmented Prime: Semitonal Voice
Leading in the Music of Shostakovich. Doctor of Philosophy (Music), May 2022, 166 pp., 2
tables, 3 figures, 81 musical examples, 1 appendix, bibliography, 99 titles.
In this dissertation, I develop and apply an original voice-leading method to the music of
Shostakovich. Between the years of 1926 and 1948, his music involved extreme chromaticism
that required analytical views from both Russia and the West. In the mid-twentieth century,
Russian theorists such as Lev Mazel' and Alexandr Dolzhansky wrote about the modal language
of Shostakovich's works, but their writings lacked how to identify them within extremely
chromatic passages. In the West, scholars describe his music as both tonal and atonal, sometimes
combined within one work. I unify these two views with my voice-leading system consisting of
an intervallic resolution of the doubly augmented prime (DAP), which appears seemingly
random on the musical surface, but occurs for specific compositional reasons. First mentioned by
name in Aleksei Ogolevets' 1946 "An Introduction into Contemporary Musical Thought," the
DAP served no harmonic or modal purpose. While Ogolevets mentions and includes examples
that show this interval, he does not discuss its resolutions nor how it functions in musical
contexts. This structure, however, has broader conceptual and analytical implications. Therefore,
I develop a method based on the voice leading and semitonal resolutions of the DAP, which I
apply to the music of Shostakovich. The DAP contributes to his compositional style by
functioning in three ways: 1) identifying one mode or two simultaneous modes, 2) completing
traditional triadic harmonies, and 3) facilitating both tonal and modal modulations.
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Hatch, Amy M. Developing Ogolevets's Doubly Augmented Prime: Semitonal Voice Leading in the Music of Shostakovich, dissertation, May 2022; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944286/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .