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    Sergeis Failed Monument: The Aesthetics of Traumatic Realism in Prokofievs

    Ode to the End of War (1945)

    Gabrielle Cornish
    Eastman School of Music
    gcornish@u.rochester.edu

    Symposium on Prokofiev and the Russian Tradition


    February 25-27, 2016

    Figure 11

    Part 1: Slow
    Part 2: From the Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of October, fast,
    workman-like
    Part 3: Slow, but more ornate
    Part 4: Birth of joy
    Part 5: Russian, joyous (3rd theme)
    Part 6: Part 2, elaborated
    Part 7: Part 5
    Part 1: Part 1, against background of parts 1 and 5
    Coda: Solo, 4 timpani, F major, extract from part 2


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    Simon Morrison, The Peoples Artist: Prokofievs Soviet Years (Oxford: Oxford University
    Press, 2009), 292.
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    Example 1 Opening of Ode to the End of War


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    Figure 2: Coda of Ode to the End of War


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