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Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom
Pieter C. Van Den Toorn
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Description for Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom
Paperback. A fresh look at Stravinsky's musical style, from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Series: Music Since 1900. Num Pages: 338 pages, 32 b/w illus. 4 tables 145 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic forces, including those of metrical displacement. Along with Stravinsky's formalist aesthetics, the strict performing style he favoured is also traced to rhythmic factors, thus reversing the direction of the traditional causal relationship. Here, aesthetic belief and performance practice are ... Read more
Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic forces, including those of metrical displacement. Along with Stravinsky's formalist aesthetics, the strict performing style he favoured is also traced to rhythmic factors, thus reversing the direction of the traditional causal relationship. Here, aesthetic belief and performance practice are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
Series
Music Since 1900
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107543621
SKU
V9781107543621
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About Pieter C. Van Den Toorn
Pieter C. van den Toorn is Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Music of Igor Stravinsky (1983), Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring (1987) and Music, Politics, and the Academy (1995). Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring won the Deems Taylor Award (1989) and the Outstanding Publication Award of the ... Read more
Reviews for Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom
'There is a wealth of forensic detail about familiar van den Toornian topics like the octatonic scale or referential collection.' Anthony Gritten, Slavonic and East European Review