Stravinsky in Context
Title | Stravinsky in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Griffiths |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-11-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781108434720 |
Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into the composer's childhood in St. Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic upbringing is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his brother Roman's death, and religious sensibilities within the family. Further essays consider Stravinsky's years in exile at the centre of dynamic and ever-evolving cultural environments, the composer constantly refining his idiom and re-defining his aesthetics against a backdrop of world events and personal tragedy. The closing chapters review new material regarding Stravinsky's complicated relationship with the Soviet Union, whilst also anticipating his legacy from the varied perspectives of publishing, research and even - in the iconic example of The Rite of Spring - space exploration. The book includes previously unpublished images of the composer and his family.
Stravinsky in Context
Title | Stravinsky in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Griffiths |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 613 |
Release | 2020-12-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1108386660 |
Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into the composer's childhood in St. Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic upbringing is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his brother Roman's death, and religious sensibilities within the family. Further essays consider Stravinsky's years in exile at the centre of dynamic and ever-evolving cultural environments, the composer constantly refining his idiom and re-defining his aesthetics against a backdrop of world events and personal tragedy. The closing chapters review new material regarding Stravinsky's complicated relationship with the Soviet Union, whilst also anticipating his legacy from the varied perspectives of publishing, research and even - in the iconic example of The Rite of Spring - space exploration. The book includes previously unpublished images of the composer and his family.
The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Cross |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2003-07-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521663779 |
Stravinsky's work spanned the major part of the twentieth century and engaged with nearly all its principal compositional developments. This Companion reflects the breadth of Stravinsky's achievement and influence in essays by leading international scholars on a wide range of topics. It is divided into three parts dealing with the contexts within which Stravinsky worked (Russian, modernist and compositional), with his key compositions (Russian, neoclassical and serial), and with the reception of his ideas (through performance, analysis and criticism). The volume concludes with an interview with the leading Dutch composer Louis Andriessen and a major re-evaluation of 'Stravinsky and Us' by Richard Taruskin.
Stravinsky's Piano
Title | Stravinsky's Piano PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Griffiths |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2013-02-21 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1107310474 |
Stravinsky's reinvention in the early 1920s, as both neoclassical composer and concert-pianist, is here placed at the centre of a fundamental reconsideration of his whole output - viewed from the unprecedented perspective of his relationship with the piano. Graham Griffiths assesses Stravinsky's musical upbringing in St Petersburg with emphasis on his education at the hands of two extraordinary teachers whom he later either ignored or denounced: Leokadiya Kashperova, for piano and Rimsky-Korsakov, for instrumentation. Their message, Griffiths argues, enabled Stravinsky to formulate from that intensely Russian experience an internationalist brand of neoclassicism founded upon the premises of objectivity and craft. Drawing directly on the composer's manuscripts, Griffiths addresses Stravinsky's lifelong fascination with counterpoint and with pianism's constructive processes. Stravinsky's Piano presents both of these as recurring features of the compositional attitudes that Stravinsky consistently applied to his works, whether Russian, neoclassical or serial, and regardless of idiom and genre.
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Title | Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons PDF eBook |
Author | Igor Stravinsky |
Publisher | Hamlin Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2007-03-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1406745561 |
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's Late Music
Title | Stravinsky's Late Music PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph N. Straus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2004-03-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521602884 |
The first book to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period.
The Apollonian Clockwork
Title | The Apollonian Clockwork PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Andriessen |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9053568565 |
The one book about Stravinsky Stravinsky would have liked. Richard Taruskin.