Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Author: Pieter C. van den Toorn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
A fresh look at Stravinsky's musical style, from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles.

The Music of Igor Stravinsky

Author: Pieter C. Van den Toorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300038842
Category :
Languages : nl
Pages : 512

Book Description
Studie over het werk van de Russische componist (1882-1971).

The rite of spring

Author: Igor Stravinsky
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486411745
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
With this brilliant and uncompromising work perhaps the most famous musical work of the twentieth century Stravinsky changed the course of modern music forever. Discarding conventional harmonies for bizarrely dissonant chords, and uniform metrics for harshly jarring beat patterns, he created a sensational theater piece that, at the work's 1931 premier, caused the music world's most talked-about riot. "Every law of musical syntax, every canon of harmony seems to have been violated, every limit of rhythmic perversity and eccentricity of orchestration exceeded in this tumultuous cataclysm of sound," says "Grove's"; "yet with all its deliberate crudity and violence the 'Rite' is a clearly planned and perfectly controlled and coordinated piece of music [that] has long been accepted universally as a masterpiece and is in the repertory of every large symphony orchestra." Reproduced here from an authoritative edition, the score is ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall. This affordable, durable, and portable volume will be the edition of choice for music students and music lovers alike."

Stravinsky Inside Out

Author: Charles M. Joseph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
This text reveals Stravinsky's two sides - the public persona preoccupied with his own image, and the private composer, whose views were often purposely suppressed.

Building Blocks

Author: Gretchen Horlacher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195370864
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Yet, from the perspective of his later works, the static and discontinuous depictions of Stravinsky's music seem incomplete and perhaps even simplistic. The "building blocks" of his novel textures often consist of tunes with identifiable intervallic shapes, goal pitches, and defining durational patterns-organizations that engender continuity and connection. In other words, although its basic materials are combined into new, often dissonant and usually repetitive textures, those materials still originate in, and depend upon, traditional concepts of melody, harmony, and pulsation. Presenting an innovative analytical model for Stravinsky's compositions, Building Blocks seeks a fuller perspective, and enables a fresh, insightful approach to this music and the theoretical constructs behind it.

The Soldier's Tale

Author: Igor Stravinksy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780901196507
Category : Ballet programs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Stravinsky's Piano

Author: Graham Griffiths
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
An unprecedented exploration of Stravinsky's use of the piano as the genesis of all his music - Russian, neoclassical and serial.

Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

Author: Igor Stravinsky
Publisher: Hamlin Press
ISBN: 1406745561
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Twentieth-century piano classics

Author: Robert Rimm
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780486406237
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Includes Stravinsky's 3 Movements from Petrushka, Rag Time, Piano-Rag-Music, more; Schoenberg's Symphony, Op. 9, 3 Piano Pieces, Op. 11, more; and Hindemith's 1922: Suite for Piano, Op. 26. Authoritative editions.

The Rest Is Noise

Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429932880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 706

Book Description
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.