The Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring

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

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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

Analytical Strategies and Musical Interpretation

Analytical Strategies and Musical Interpretation
Title Analytical Strategies and Musical Interpretation PDF eBook
Author Craig Ayrey
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 340
Release 2004-01-29
Genre Music
ISBN 9780521543972

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Interpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book demonstrates and reflects on the interpretive results of analysis.

The Rite of Spring at 100

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

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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 Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky

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

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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.

New Grove Modern Masters

New Grove Modern Masters
Title New Grove Modern Masters PDF eBook
Author Vera Lambert
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 316
Release 1997-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780393315929

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most comprehensive and up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together. The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works.

Music at the Turn of the Century

Music at the Turn of the Century
Title Music at the Turn of the Century PDF eBook
Author Joseph Kerman
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 440
Release 2024-03-29
Genre Music
ISBN 0520311663

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Most of the essays in this book were solicited for the tenth anniversary of the journal 19th Century Music, which has sought to encourage innovative writing about music--musicological, theoretical, and/or critical writing--since its founding in 1977. We invited former contributors and some others to submit articles on the general question of the relations between nineteenth-century music and music of the early twentieth century. Responses to our invitation were published in two special issues in the spring and summer of 1987. The breadth and scope of these articles, and their collective cogency, sparked the idea of reissuing them under a single cover, as a book. --From the Preface This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Music, Politics, and the Academy

Music, Politics, and the Academy
Title Music, Politics, and the Academy PDF eBook
Author Pieter C. van den Toorn
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 251
Release 1996
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0520201167

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"I value this book for its idealism, its positive vote for autonomy and technical analysis, its courageous answer to feminist musicology, its exposure of the contradictions of academic politics. Its importance lies not in settling the debates but in construing the issues in new and provocative ways."—Kofi Agawu, author of Playing with Signs "We need books like this. It deals with major topics, raises critical issues, and develops numerous interesting ideas; and it is written in an engaging manner. The book should attract attention and will provide at least one articulate countervoice to the discussion of important issues currently affecting the field, that have been raised by those professing to the "New Musicology."—Robert Morgan, author of Twentieth-Century Music