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.

Stravinsky's Ballets

Author: Charles M. Joseph
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300118728
Category : Ballets
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Joseph provides superb analyses of each of Stravinsky's ballet pieces, examining the composer's own drafts, notes and sketches to discover how he conceived of and developed each work."--Jacket.

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."

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.

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.

Stravinsky & Balanchine

Author: Charles M. Joseph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
¿7FA study of the musical collaboration of Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, who created the music and movement for many ballet masterpieces. Drawing on extensive new research, Joseph discusses the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballets against a rich contextual backdrop."

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.