The Music of Stravinsky
eBook - ePub

The Music of Stravinsky

Collected Essays

  1. 502 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Music of Stravinsky

Collected Essays

About this book

The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky may have been the greatest as well. Stretching across forty or so years, the essays in this volume address the dynamics of Igor Stravinsky's music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Underscored are the features of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form that would remain consistently a part of Stravinsky's oeuvre regardless of the changes in orientation from the Russian period to the neoclassical and the early serial. The Rite of Spring (1913), Les Noces (1917–23), the Symphony of Psalms (1930), and the Symphony in Three Movements (1945) are discussed in detail, as are many of the circumstances attending their conception. Other concerns include the composer's "formalist" aesthetics and the strict performing style he pursued as an interpreter and conductor of his music.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Some Characteristics of Stravinsky's Diatonic Music
  11. 2 Taruskin's Angle
  12. 3 Stravinsky Re-barred
  13. 4 Neoclassicism and Its Definitions
  14. 5 Will Stravinsky Survive Postmodernism?
  15. 6 Stravinsky, Les Noces (Svadebka), and the Prohibition against Expressive Timing
  16. 7 Stravinsky and the Octatonic
  17. 8 Stravinsky, Adorno, and the Art of Displacement
  18. 9 The Rite of Spring Briefly Revisited: Thoughts on Stravinsky's Stratifications, the Psychology of Meter, and African Polyrhythm
  19. 10 Individual and “Class Generality”: Reflections on the Postwar Years of Babbitt, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky
  20. Index