Description
Product ID: | 9789814968621 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Music of Stravinsky |
Subtitle: | Collected Essays |
Authors: | Author: Pieter C. van den Toorn |
Page Count: | 502 |
Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Composers and songwriters, Bibliographies, catalogues, Music, 20th century & contemporary classical music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Bibliographies, catalogues, Russia, 20th century |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The essays in this volume, spanning more than forty, address the dynamics of Stravinsky’s music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Works such as 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Jenny Stanford Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Jenny Stanford Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-05-12 |