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Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Shostakovitch - The Flattened Second

The jewish tinge of the song is built on that flattened second and the flattened sixth. So how does shostakovitch incorporate this into his music? In a song called lament for a dead child, here are the words, sun and rain shine in mist. The fog has descended. The moon has grown dim. And how did they name him? Moishela, moisela. What did they feed him with? With bread and onions. And where did they bury him? In a grave. Oy little boy, in the grave, in the Grave.

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