The Rite of Spring at 100
Title | The Rite of Spring at 100 PDF eBook |
Author | John Reef |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 551 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0253027357 |
When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as distinguished music and dance scholars discuss the meaning of the work and its far-reaching influence on world music, performance, and culture. Essays explore four key facets of the ballet: its choreography and movement; the cultural and historical contexts of its performance and reception in France; its structure and use of innovative rhythmic and tonal features; and the reception of the work in Russian music history and theory.
The Rite of Spring
Title | The Rite of Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Gillian Moore |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2019-01-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1786696819 |
The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. On 29 May 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, received its premiere. Many of the cultural big names of Paris were there, or were rumoured to have been there: Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Picasso. When the curtain rose on a cast of frenziedly stamping dancers, a near-riot ensued, ensuring the evening would enter the folklore of modernism. While it was the dancing that triggered the mayhem, Stravinsky's score contained shocks enough, with its innovations in form, rhythm, dissonance and its sheer sonic power. The Rite of Spring would achieve recognition in its own right as a concert piece, and is now seen as one of the most influential works of the 20th century. Gillian Moore explores the cultural climate that created The Rite, tells the story of the creation of the music and the ballet and provides a guide to the music itself, showing how a scandalous novelty of 1913 became a 21st-century concert staple. As well as considering its influence on 20th-century classical composers, she probes The Rite's impact on film music (including scores for Star Wars and Jaws); its extensive influence on jazz musicians (including Charlie Parker) and by artists as diverse as Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa and The Pet Shop Boys.
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.
Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring
Title | Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Pieter C. Van den Toorn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780193153318 |
This is a broad, comprehensive study of Stravinsky's famous ballet.
The Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring
Title | The Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Forte |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1978-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780300105377 |
Forte here applies his analytical approach as set forth in The Structure of Atonal Music to one of the monuments of modern music. Together the introduction and the analysis, with its more than 100 musical examples, both illuminate the structure of the work and demonstrate the way in which Forte's method may be applied in the analysis of complex music. "[This study] is welcome and long overdue.. The influence of Allen Forte on contemporary music theory has been enormous, and The Harmonic Organization of "The Rite of Spring" has importance for a number of serious musicians, particularly, for disciples and others interested in set-theoretic approach, and for those interested in Stravinsky's work..Seeing the theory applied consistently to a specific work can show if it provides any true illumination of the work..This study should not be ignored."-Frank Retzel, Notes
When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky
Title | When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Stringer |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0547907257 |
Composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian comrades, worked together to bring a very different and new ballet to a Parisian audienceN"The Rite of Spring"Nand rioting filled the streets! Full color.
Rites of Spring
Title | Rites of Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Modris Eksteins |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2012-03-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307361772 |
Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins. Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the aftermath of World War I--from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places." In this extraordinary book, Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, All Quiet on the Western Front. Rites of Spring is a remarkable and rare work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past and toward our future.