QW 10-20-11

In chapter four one of the first things Ballenger mentions as a problem while doing research is running into conflicting ideas. In the research paper about Shostakovich, there is a lot of conflicting viewpoints about the double meanings in his music. Some musicologists believe that Shostakovich was intentionally writing with two meanings, while others believe that it is just people looking too far into his music. As you can see, I am writing about an extremely conflicting topic, so I will run into these controversies often in my research.