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Books : Entertainment : Sheet Music & Scores : Composers : Stravinsky
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Composed for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, The Rite of Spring premiered in 1913 to a near-riot. The most famous musical work of the 20th century, this brilliant and uncompromising masterpiece changed the course of modern music. Nearly a century later, it remains in the repertoire of every large symphony orchestra.
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Handsome, unabridged, inexpensive edition of modern masterpiece renowned for brilliant orchestration, glowing color, evocative power. Reprinted from authoritative Russian edition. Includes list of characters and instruments, plus new English translation of Table of Contents.
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A sort of choreographic cantata depicting Russian peasant nuptials, Les Noces was produced by Diaghilev in Paris in 1923. This outstandingly original work uses unusual combinations of instruments with vocal accompaniment. Handsome, inexpensive volume; authoritative score. Instrumentation. Glossary. Preface. Illustrations. Note on the Translation. Translation of the French Text.
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One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book.
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In the second edition of the definitive account of Igor Stravinsky's life and work, arranged in two separate sections, Eric Walter White revised the whole book, completing the biographical section by taking it up to Stravinsky's death in 1971. To the list of works, the author added some early pieces that have recently come to light, as well as the late compositions, including the Requiem Canticles and The Owl and the Pussycat. Four more of Stravinsky's own writings appear in the Appendices, and there are several important additions to the bibliography.
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Available for the first time in one volume, this collection features 14 piano pieces by Igor Stravinsky. It includes easier works for the intermediate pianist and concert works for the seasoned performer. Contents: Chant du Rossignol * Chorus from the Prologue to 'Boris Godunov' * Les cinq doigts * Four Etudes * Fragment des symphonies pour instruments a vent a la memoire de Achille-Claude Debussy * Piano Rag-Music * Polka * Serenade in A * Sonata * Souvenir d'une marche boche * Tango * Trois mouvements de Petrouchka * Valse * Valse pour les enfants.
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In his memoirs, Stravinsky recalled that he had a "distinct picture of a puppet, suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios." Soon he began to associate this with Ptrouchka; the central character from nineteenth-century Russian puppet shows. This "droll, ugly, sentimental, shifting personage" was essentially an anarchic jester, related to the commedia dell'arte tradition. The scenario places the Ptrouchka show in the center of a Shrovetide Fair in St. Petersburg in the 1830s. Only the puppets - the seductive ballerina, the jealous Moor, and above all Ptrouchka - are individualized and capable of real emotion, while the swirling crowds of merrymakers are, ironically, themselves like puppets in the grip of forces they do not understand. Ptrouchka has become more of a sad clown, like a Pierrot: a disillusioned idealist, luckless lover, and victim. Only at the end, when his ghost terrifies the puppet-master, does he reappear as an eternal spirit of mockery. Premiered by Nijinsky with Diaghelev's Ballets Russes, Ptrouchka is a virtuosic combination of Russian folksongs, street-songs, a French vaudeville, and Viennese waltzes.In 1947 Stravinsky revised the work for smaller orchestra, extensively re-instrumenting it in the process. This version concludes with a "concert ending," which was devised in 1911 for use with extract
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Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms are two of Stravinsky's most important works on Latin texts.Oedipus Rex is a rare example of the use of Latin in a modern musical drama. Based on Sophocles, the text was written by Jean Cocteau and translated into Latin. The work is a notable example of "opera-oratorio," a music drama suitable for presentation with minimal staging in a theater, concert hall, or church.
The Symphony of Psalms bears little relation to traditional symphonic form and the chorus and orchestra are of roughly equal strength. The work grows from the first movement ("Hear My Prayer"), a plea of human supplication over a bass ostinato. From this is derived the material for the second movement which opens with an almost Bachian instrumental fugue. A broader choral fugue follows with instrumental accompaniment and finally the two fugues are combined. The resulting "New Song" is the slow, seraphic "Alleluia" that opens the final movement. After an extended Allegro of thanksgiving, the final section unfolds a majestic coda over a hypnotically slow ostinato bass - one of the finest of all Stravinsky's "apotheosis" endings, the act of praise fixed in music with timeless immobility.
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The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.
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An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.
Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results of the original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the material has never before appeared in English.
A score embodying the best available musical text.
Historical background—what is known of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the work, including (where relevant) original source material.
A detailed analysis of the music, by the editor of the volume or another well-known scholar.
Other significant analytic essays and critical comments, exposing the student to a variety of opinions about the music.
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The Rite of Spring is Stravinsky's most revolutionary work. This comprehensive guide tells in vivid detail the story of its inception and composition, of the stormy rehearsals that led to the scandalous premiere in 1913, and of Stravinsky's later betrayal of the ballet's first choreographer, Nijinsky. Peter Hill probes beneath the surface of the music to reveal an architectural conception of unsuspected guile and subtlety. He provides a detailed discussion of the work in performance and a hard-hitting conclusion, which poses a radical challenge to the orthodox view of the work.
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Exploration of the language, attitude, dissonance, and drama of the piano music of our century as in the works of Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, Piston, Ives, Ravel, Hindemith, and 35 other contemporary composers.
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This impressive volume brings together three major 20th-century chamber works: Berg's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 3; Stravinsky's Three Pieces for String Quartet; and Webern's Five Movements for String Quartet. Reprinted from authoritative sources, these works reflect the influence of Arnold Schoenberg and the musical sea changes of the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev, the director of the Ballets Russes, this dazzling piece brought overnight success to its composer. Based on a series of Russian fairy tales, Stravinsky's modern masterpiece is greatly admired for its brilliant orchestration and harmony, and it remains as popular today as at its 1910 premiere.
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With this brilliant and uncompromising work, the most famous musical work of the 20th century, Stravinsky changed the course of modern music forever. "A clearly planned and perfectly controlled and coordinated piece of music [which] has for long been accepted universally as a masterpiece." — Grove.
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(In)famous for creating a riot at its premiere, The Rite of Spring was first published in this four-hand version for piano in the composer's own arrangement. Scaled down for rehearsal purposes, this reduction provides an opportunity for two pianists to perform the complete work and for listeners to delve into Stravinsky's seminal opus.