The paper examines evolution of waltz and waltz themes in the works
of D. Shostakovich: from light-joyous and transparent, to aggressive-
mechanistic and tragic. Waltz and waltz features play an important role
in creativity of the composer and their semantic role is considerably
strengthened. There is a group of «puppet» waltzes that have certain
symbolism. The composer attaches great importance to «genre mixes»,
and waltz often contains signs of other genres, the fi rst role of which is
assigned to scherzo. It is noted that waltz features in the theme of the
composer’s works gradually fade into the background and disappear.
Keywords: waltz, quartet, romance music, genre, evolution, thematism, symbo lism,
scherzo, puppet music.
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