Axis Tonality and Submediant in the Music of Shostakovich

Abstract

This essay explores third relations and tonal pairing in Shostakovich’s music by investigating several works through the lens of axis tonality, a concept developed by Joseph Straus for the music of Stravinsky. In addition, it argues that a conspicuous emphasis on the submediant, evident in all the analyses, forms a thread of continuity that links Shostakovich back to the nineteenth-century Russian tradition.

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