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An unprecedented exploration of Stravinsky's use of the piano as the genesis of all his music - Russian, neoclassical and serial.
Author : Graham Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521191785
An unprecedented exploration of Stravinsky's use of the piano as the genesis of all his music - Russian, neoclassical and serial.
Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486411745
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."
Author : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486842843
Accessible collection, focusing on the composer's melodies and style, presents manageable samples of the more abstract works. Includes highlights from The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, Les Noces, and Petrushka.
Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release :
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457488702
A collection of piano solos composed by Igor Stravinsky.
Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520046504
Author : Eric Walter White
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486297552
Fascinating critical and biographical portrait of famed 20th-century composer includes commentary on the evolution of such masterworks as The Firebird, Petrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps, Pulcinella, and Histoire du Soldat.
Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520044029
For the first time in one volume--the celebrated Stravinsky and Craft Conversations Few would dispute that Igor Stravinsky was the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Conductor and writer Robert Craft was his closest colleague and friend, and for over twenty-one years he lived with the Stravinskys in their Hollywood home. In the early 1950s he accompanied the composer on his concert tours, and from the mid-1950s to Stravinsky's death in 1971 he co-conducted his concerts. Together Stravinsky and Craft published five acclaimed collections known as the Conversations series, which sprung from informal talks between the two men. In this newly edited and re-structured one-volume version, Craft brings Stravinsky's reflections on his childhood, his family life, professional associates, and personal relationships into sharper focus and places the major compositions in their cultural milieux. The Conversations books are the only published writing attributed to Stravinsky that are actually "by him" in terms of fidelity to his thoughts and opinions, making this volume required reading for all fans and students of Stravinsky's music.
Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520044036
Author : Charles M. Joseph
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
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Author : Scott Lubaroff
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This study asserts that Stravinsky's Octour pour instruments a vents (1923) is pivotal within Stravinsky's progressions in regard to orchestrational practice, instrumental choices, and compositional choices, and presents it as the point in which all of these transitions came together for the first time. After an opening discussion of Stravinsky's early life and compositional career, it concentrates on setting up the Octet and Concerto through discussion of the years leading up to their composition. In addition to placing the two works within their context of their position and broader influence upon Stravinsky's surrounding production, it provides a full musical analysis of the Octet, followed by comparative analysis between it and the Concerto. The analysis is predominantly centered around compositional practices and orchestrational techniques.